RARE INSULATOR FOUND ON BEACH DIG

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CODD COMMANDO

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Hi everyone
Just joined looks a good site !
I am a member of a small group of digger"s from the North Midlands and Wales in the uk.
I thought I might put the picture"s on of some bottles and items we found on a beach dig we are doing on and off
weather permitting, and the time of writing this there are 80mph winds and extremly high rough sea"s .

The insulator is a extremly rare Reads 1858 Insulator which recently was sold to a prominant U.S. collector.
The first picture is as it came out of the 1900 refuse site that had been coverd by the sands of the windswept coast of North Wales.
 

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CODD COMMANDO

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Many thanks Pearl here are some pictures of other finds off the site

Rare blue top William Hill ginger beer

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Liptons tea enamel sign
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some of the types of bottles encounterd on there
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rare soda syphon coaster circa 1890
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CODD COMMANDO

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Here is how it looked when first dug!

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I nearly left it behind.
The artifactes it was found with
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A rare ladies skin cream ointment found the next day
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The great thing about this site is that after a big storm there is a rich harvest of goodies to be found on the beach not just bottles but coins and military badges [there was a miltary fort here from 1790-1945 now totaly gone ].Their will be more of these insulators on here they formed part of a miltary telegraph laid in 1859 to replace a mechanical semaphore system that ran over a 150 miles!
 

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