bottles123
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I got sent home from campus due to coronavirus, but the weather hasn't been ideal for digging until yesterday. The wait was totally worth it, because after two hours I pulled up this!
The neck showed first, so when I pulled it out of the dirt I thought it was a broken blob because it was so short. Then I saw it had a base and flipped out. I've only been collecting/digging for a short time and have never dug something this cool. No pontil unfortunately. I'm thinking late 1870s or 1880, although I saw an identical one advertised as a 1860s civil war era bottle. Thoughts on age/rarity/value?
Here it is all cleaned up. R. B. WEBSTER, NEW YORK. PHILADELPHIA XXX PORTER AND ALE on the reverse.
Here's the reverse. It had a small rusty ding from impact with the stopper wire in the middle of the neck on the front, but when I cleaned it and the chip proved to be very small and shallow. There's a slight flake on one side, but you almost can't see it unless you're looking for it. This is the first thing I've found that feels historical. I feel like a real bottle collector now!
I found some other great stuff on this dig.
These strapsided flasks are earlier than any other flasks I've found. The yellow is a half pint; amber's a pint. I've only found aqua and amber up until now, so the yellow's a nice addition. Still after citron and a few others.
This bottle was sold to attendees of the Koster and Bial Concert Hall, which put on vaudeville performances in NYC during the 19th century. No base and no top, but it was worth taking a picture of.
Some random bric-a-brac: Lea and Perrins worcestershire sauce, J. A. Gilka liquor shard, a glass syringe sans needle, a consolidate fruit jar company mason jar ceramic lid insert, a millville atmospheric fruit jar lid embossed Whitalls Patent 1861, a piece of a spray perfume bottle, and 3 mystery items: Queen Mary Bay Rum, ...CLAY WHISKEY, and (?)ANADERAD ceramic piece.
The Bay Rum is only a partial mystery. It shows up in a number of ads from the 1890s to the 1900s, but I can't find a picture of a whole one. Anyone got one?
Wondering if anyone knows the full name on this shard. It looks like there might be the leg of a K right before the C, but I'm not confident.
This piece is particularly intriguing. The first letter is hard to make out because of the curvature of the jar. I've tried PANADERAD, DANADERAD, and CANADERAD with no luck. Is it the manufacturer? A product? Anyone seen it before?
That's all. Thanks for reading, and stay healthy
The neck showed first, so when I pulled it out of the dirt I thought it was a broken blob because it was so short. Then I saw it had a base and flipped out. I've only been collecting/digging for a short time and have never dug something this cool. No pontil unfortunately. I'm thinking late 1870s or 1880, although I saw an identical one advertised as a 1860s civil war era bottle. Thoughts on age/rarity/value?
Here it is all cleaned up. R. B. WEBSTER, NEW YORK. PHILADELPHIA XXX PORTER AND ALE on the reverse.
Here's the reverse. It had a small rusty ding from impact with the stopper wire in the middle of the neck on the front, but when I cleaned it and the chip proved to be very small and shallow. There's a slight flake on one side, but you almost can't see it unless you're looking for it. This is the first thing I've found that feels historical. I feel like a real bottle collector now!
I found some other great stuff on this dig.
These strapsided flasks are earlier than any other flasks I've found. The yellow is a half pint; amber's a pint. I've only found aqua and amber up until now, so the yellow's a nice addition. Still after citron and a few others.
This bottle was sold to attendees of the Koster and Bial Concert Hall, which put on vaudeville performances in NYC during the 19th century. No base and no top, but it was worth taking a picture of.
Some random bric-a-brac: Lea and Perrins worcestershire sauce, J. A. Gilka liquor shard, a glass syringe sans needle, a consolidate fruit jar company mason jar ceramic lid insert, a millville atmospheric fruit jar lid embossed Whitalls Patent 1861, a piece of a spray perfume bottle, and 3 mystery items: Queen Mary Bay Rum, ...CLAY WHISKEY, and (?)ANADERAD ceramic piece.
The Bay Rum is only a partial mystery. It shows up in a number of ads from the 1890s to the 1900s, but I can't find a picture of a whole one. Anyone got one?
Wondering if anyone knows the full name on this shard. It looks like there might be the leg of a K right before the C, but I'm not confident.
This piece is particularly intriguing. The first letter is hard to make out because of the curvature of the jar. I've tried PANADERAD, DANADERAD, and CANADERAD with no luck. Is it the manufacturer? A product? Anyone seen it before?
That's all. Thanks for reading, and stay healthy
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