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I have found many tooled blob and tooled crown John Eichler beer bottles over the years, but this appears to be a scarce large script variant that I have never encountered before on a tooled crown. Tooled crown variants typically have very small script. This variant is large like on the old blobs.

Found this blob-top soda bottle on June 3rd. It appears to be an applied blob. It has no embossing. 1870's-1880's.

Two different variant Burt Brothers bottles from East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania. They are both pre-prohibition era tooled bottles. Found in Scranton Pennsylvania 5/1/2024.

Does anyone know a value? I dug all my bottles during 1969-1972. They have been boxed up since. In 2024 I know valauble/not valuable in most cases, but have no idea about how that translates to 2024 currency amounts. The bottle is in dug condition with no cracks or structural damage. There are...

This is an unusual Hutchinson-style bottle belonging to the Ideal Mineral Water Manufacturing Company. While it retains a Hutchinson-style body, its neck is more elongated and its blob is larger than typical allowing it to use a variety of closures in addition to just a Hutch stopper.

This is a tooled-crown amber beer bottle. The Theo Young company operated between 1897-1915.

We all know Yuengling beer is Pennsylvania's greatest beer, but did you know that in the 1880's and 90's they also brewed in New York City? This is one of their NYC based beer bottles made some time in the 1880's until 1897 when David Yuengling Jr. sold the NYC venture to the Betz & Son’s...

Pro: I just probed my first privy, a brick liner! (Edit: I thought it was a brick liner at first, it definitely was not) Con: First three bottles were all ketchup bottles, from around 1930. Found about 3 feet down. Question: I haven’t dug the whole privy, just a little bit down. It seemed that...

An interesting little milk bottle from the first quarter of the 20th century.

Founded in 1857 this company purported to be the first sellers of Ginger Ale in the USA. This bottle dates to 1895 (date embossed on base). B&B declared bankruptcy in 1903. Bottle recovered 10/26/23.

This is a hand tooled baby bottle from the 1890's-1910's. It's also known as a murder bottle since its turtle-shape made it difficult to clean and thus a vector for bacteria which killed many babies.

The bottle is stamped 'A&W FEYH'. The initials stand for Alexander & William Feyh, who operated out of Manhattan in the 1850's. According to my references this bottle dates to approximately 1859.

Seltzer bottle from the Evers-Rehm Co. of 419-421-423 E. 24th St. NEW York. This bottle was made by B.&M. S. Co. - the Bottler's & Manufacturer's Supply Company of Long Island City, New York, which operated from 1897-1920. It has a tooled crown and a tiny one inch wide base, very unstable.

This is a tooled-lip Tincture of Iodine poison bottle. Back then seeing an image of Skull & Crossbones on something still filled people with fear, not romanticized images of pirates we think of nowadays.

Excavated all of this today: From one tiny area I dug 34 clay marbles, 3 glass marbles, and several particularly round acorns and chestnuts (two of them pictured bottom left in the picture above). I can only imagine the acorns and chestnuts served as marble substitutes. Some were so round...

This is a Lehing's Beverages soda bottle from 1924. The company operated at 404-406 Jackson Ave. Long Island City N.Y.

This is a circle slug plate embossed blob top bottle for Charles J. Fritz from the Bowery Bay House that once stood on 294-296 Steinway Ave. in what was then Long Island City but is now Astoria Queens. Bottle dates from 1900-1910.

This is a Mary T. Goldman hair tonic bottle from St. Paul Minnesota. It is machine-made and dates from about 1920-1924. Excavated May 8th 2023.

These are all finds from a dig I conducted last evening at my 1924-capped landfill, May 7th 2023: The large bottles include: 1. Tooled blob C. V. Garrison Flushing L.I. made by the Karl Hutter bottling works in 1908. 2. Tooled blob amber bottle, no markings. 3. Machine-made Artic Fruit Juice...

This bottle was made in 1908 at the Karl Hutter bottle and glass factory. I excavated it on May 7th 2023.

Was digging in the 1924-capped landfill today and found a Pat. Nov. 30th 1858 Mason's Jar with a grounded lip. This is my first jar of this type! So excited! Interestingly I also found a 1910 V nickle next to the jar. I need to bring my metal detector to see if there are any more coins...

This is a tooled-lip Dr. Porter medicine bottle. Found on May 4th 2023.

The bottle says “ Listerine Lambert Pharmacal Company” and at the bottom it is a diamond with the number 500 in the center. I understand that this is Illinois Glass Co. and I’m led to believe the number 500 is the catalog number. I am having a difficult time finding the exact year for this...

This is a damaged C. V. Garrison beer bottle that I found. The top was broken off so I glued it back on. It was made at Karl Hutter's bottle factory in 1916, likely one of the last Lightning Stopper sealed bottles made there.

Found this unusual little bottle yesterday evening, it was made for Broe and Gorman of 404 - 6 East 60th Street NY: In situ: After a quick rinse: Despite looking somewhat like a Hutchinson style bottle it actually isn't, it would have sealed from the top with a porcelain lightning stopper...

This is a transitional-top Hutchinson bottle I found made for Broe and Gorman of 404-6 East 60th Street NY. Although it retains the overall shape of a Hutchinson, the bottle sports a longer neck and bigger blob to accommodate a Lightning Stopper in place of a Hutchinson Stopper.

Joseph Liebmann, son of Samuel Liebmann (Founder of S. Liebmann's Sons Brewing Co. and inventor of Rheingold Extra Dry) partnered with David Obermeyer, his brother in law, to form Obermeyer and Liebmanns. It operated from around 1890-1924 before being bought out by S. Liebman's Son's.

A rare 1890's import style James Everard's tooled blob top beer bottle with an embossed star. James Everard was an Irish brewer who operated in the then predominantly German dominated NYC brewing industry.

Circle slug plate embossed mineral water bottle with a tooled blob top. Excavated from compacted clay.

This is a tooled-lip lattice and diamond cobalt poison bottle that I dug on March 4th 2023. It dates to the 1890's.

Got out late today just before sunset. Only managed to dig one bottle from the clay, but it was well worth it! Here is the bottle in situ and immediately after extraction: The clay preserved it very well for over 100 years. That's the trade off for digging in clay, the bottles are...

This is a tooled blob top Schlitz beer bottle. It reads "Trade Mark Schlitz Registered P. M. Ohmeis & Co. Sole Agents New York"

Excavated Feb. 18th a tooled-blob Citrate Magnesia bottle with original Feb. 3rd 1892 Karl Hutter Patented porcelain lightning stopper.

Excavated all these bottles on Feb. 16. 1. Dark-green bottle, no markings. (Turn-molded) 2. Piel Bro's - East New York Brewery 3. New York Bottling Company Inc. 4. Leonard Eppig Brewing Co., Brooklyn NY 5. Welz & Zerweck High Ground Brewery, Brooklyn NY 6. Canada Dry (Machine Made)

This is a Florida Water bottle with an applied lip. It probably dates from between 1890-1910. Excavated from anaerobic clay on Feb. 9th.

This is an amber tooled crown Ebling beer bottle dating from the 1910's. The Ebling brewery was located in the Bronx and operated from 1868-1949.

Found January 25th.

Hello to all First post, found this old nail today using a mine lab. Few inches down in a washed out sand dune. I’m on the treasure coast of Florida, but this was not particularly close to any of the 1715 wrecks. Found it next to bathtub beach in Stuart FL. Anyone have any insight into it...

The Uniontown bottle has a date on the bottom saying 1890! These are now in the gift shop in the display case.

Bottles are from left to right: 1. The John Eichler Brewing Co. (clear variant) 2. A. Hüpfel's Son's 3. 1 gallon stoneware jug, no markings.