110+ YO Beer Bottle Trifecta (May 2nd 2023)

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Went back to the 1910-capped clay pit bottle dump that I have been extensively excavating since January. It is very difficult digging but the trade off is the bottles often come out in great condition. In about two hours of digging I recovered three blob-top beer bottles, one tooled lip med, and one wooden tobacco pipe.

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Bottles from left to right:

1. "North Beach Height F Frankel Bottling Co." (Bottle made by the Boley Manufacturing Co.,1898-1911)

2. "Bachmann - Bechtel Brewing Co. S.I. N.Y." (1907-1911)

3. "Jacob Oertel 151 Flushing Ave. Astoria L.I."

4. "Burnett Boston" tooled lip med/extract bottle.

Here is the Bachmann - Bechtel immediately before and after excavation:
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Bachmann brewery workers (courtesy of www.taverntrove.com):
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On Tuesday April 5th 1910 young William Bachmann died at just 30 years old, and the company went out of business:
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North Beach Height F Frankel bottle during and after excavation:
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The Boley Manufacturing Co. base plate:
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Jacob Oertel bottle during and after excavation:
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That's all for now.
 

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All of them are really awesome condition.
Great trade off if they come out looking like that. Congratulations
 

Went back to the 1910-capped clay pit bottle dump that I have been extensively excavating since January. It is very difficult digging but the trade off is the bottles often come out in great condition. In about two hours of digging I recovered three blob-top beer bottles, one tooled lip med, and one wooden tobacco pipe.

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Bottles from left to right:

1. "North Beach Height F Frankel Bottling Co." (Bottle made by the Boley Manufacturing Co.,1898-1911)

2. "Bachmann - Bechtel Brewing Co. S.I. N.Y." (1907-1911)

3. "Jacob Oertel 151 Flushing Ave. Astoria L.I."

4. "Burnett Boston" tooled lip med/extract bottle.

Here is the Bachmann - Bechtel immediately before and after excavation:
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Bachmann brewery workers (courtesy of www.taverntrove.com):
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On Tuesday April 5th 1910 young William Bachmann died at just 30 years old, and the company went out of business:
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North Beach Height F Frankel bottle during and after excavation:
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The Boley Manufacturing Co. base plate:
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Jacob Oertel bottle during and after excavation:
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That's all for now.
Very Cool!!! Congrats!!! Nice Info and write up!!!
 

Thanks for the history lesson, and great saves on the bottles. I wish I knew more about old bottles, I have found a few "blob tops" in my neck of the woods too.
 

Absolutely lovely condition! How do you find a site like that?
Thanks! It isn't easy, it takes alot of research and field work. To find this particular location I went into the city archives and researched the many land reclamation projects conducted by the city in the late 19th and early 20th century. I then cross referenced these locations with modern maps until I found one that was both still in existance and was also publicly accessible. Then I actually went there and started probing the areas until I hit glass. Brought in shovels and got to digging, and there, low and behold, the year 1910 frozen in time under a layer of clay - exactly as the old city archive map said. And this isn't just bottles, it's everything and anything people tossed there 110 years ago. I even found a horse skull down there.
 

Went back to the 1910-capped clay pit bottle dump that I have been extensively excavating since January. It is very difficult digging but the trade off is the bottles often come out in great condition. In about two hours of digging I recovered three blob-top beer bottles, one tooled lip med, and one wooden tobacco pipe.

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Bottles from left to right:

1. "North Beach Height F Frankel Bottling Co." (Bottle made by the Boley Manufacturing Co.,1898-1911)

2. "Bachmann - Bechtel Brewing Co. S.I. N.Y." (1907-1911)

3. "Jacob Oertel 151 Flushing Ave. Astoria L.I."

4. "Burnett Boston" tooled lip med/extract bottle.

Here is the Bachmann - Bechtel immediately before and after excavation:
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View attachment 2081767

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Bachmann brewery workers (courtesy of www.taverntrove.com):
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On Tuesday April 5th 1910 young William Bachmann died at just 30 years old, and the company went out of business:
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North Beach Height F Frankel bottle during and after excavation:
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The Boley Manufacturing Co. base plate:
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Jacob Oertel bottle during and after excavation:
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That's all for now.
Great bottle finds.
 

Great finds and post as always UnderMiner. Nothing better than the way a dug bottle cleans up. The archives you speak of are they online or at a library?
 

Great finds and post as always UnderMiner. Nothing better than the way a dug bottle cleans up. The archives you speak of are they online or at a library?
Thank you! I use both physical and digital sources. The digital sources are accessible online through the New york City public library's website. They have a campaign to digitize all of their physical material, but they're a long way from completing this. Nothing beats looking at the real papers, if you can locate them that is.
 

Those are some very cool bottles! Congratulations on finding them in such great shape. Thank you for sharing with us.
 

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