NJKLAGT
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- Southern Ontario
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- Garrett Euro Ace 350
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Hey Everyone,
'Got out hiking and looking around for glass yesterday. I went to another spot way out of town to check it out. I drew up a map, packed a lunch, and ended up walking through the woods for about five hours. Heat, mosquitoes, thorns - you know the drill. About half way through the hike I thought about calling it quits, but thankfully I ended up finding a few treats in the one single place that I suspected there to be something. I took some pictures along the way, so I'll share some of those with you too.
Anyway, the dump was basically just a pile of tires and wood and yard waste. My first thought was, "let's keep walking and find something better". But just behind that (not downhill or anything, the terrain is very flat there), the ground was littered with broken bottles from the 40s and 50s, mostly covered with old wire fence. The whole area was about 20 feet by 30 feet. It was a surface dump, nothing more than a few inches deep. This got me curious enough to stroll around the patch looking for an older cluster of glass. In a very small pile I found some early ABM fruit jar bases, some English applied tops, etc. I knelt down to browse over the colourful little pile, and tucked away quietly under all that wire, in the dark maple swamp soil, I saw the broad round side of this ink. I had found what I was looking for! That was enough for me. I went home happy.
I also found an amethyst slick, an Eclectric Oil (outrageously common but this is my oldest ABM variant), a milk glass container that was interesting enough to keep (the arches go all the way around, reminds me of a Carter's cathedral), an old Vernor's ginger ale, a candy dish (why am I suddenly finding all these candy dishes?), and a beautiful iron lamp base that I might sandblast and paint black, haven't decided yet.
So that's it! Thanks for coming along. Good luck and happy hunting,
N
'Got out hiking and looking around for glass yesterday. I went to another spot way out of town to check it out. I drew up a map, packed a lunch, and ended up walking through the woods for about five hours. Heat, mosquitoes, thorns - you know the drill. About half way through the hike I thought about calling it quits, but thankfully I ended up finding a few treats in the one single place that I suspected there to be something. I took some pictures along the way, so I'll share some of those with you too.
Anyway, the dump was basically just a pile of tires and wood and yard waste. My first thought was, "let's keep walking and find something better". But just behind that (not downhill or anything, the terrain is very flat there), the ground was littered with broken bottles from the 40s and 50s, mostly covered with old wire fence. The whole area was about 20 feet by 30 feet. It was a surface dump, nothing more than a few inches deep. This got me curious enough to stroll around the patch looking for an older cluster of glass. In a very small pile I found some early ABM fruit jar bases, some English applied tops, etc. I knelt down to browse over the colourful little pile, and tucked away quietly under all that wire, in the dark maple swamp soil, I saw the broad round side of this ink. I had found what I was looking for! That was enough for me. I went home happy.
I also found an amethyst slick, an Eclectric Oil (outrageously common but this is my oldest ABM variant), a milk glass container that was interesting enough to keep (the arches go all the way around, reminds me of a Carter's cathedral), an old Vernor's ginger ale, a candy dish (why am I suddenly finding all these candy dishes?), and a beautiful iron lamp base that I might sandblast and paint black, haven't decided yet.
So that's it! Thanks for coming along. Good luck and happy hunting,
N
