Another Blasted Bottle Day

[Trash Digger]

Yesterday, I finally made it back to the old homesite I was able to detect a couple of weeks ago. It was very windy, and the freshly plowed fields and the bulldozed sites freely gave up dust to harass the intrepid MDer. After about 4 hours, I returned home looking like a dirt clod and my eyes feeling like they were full of sandpaper. And all I found were a few more bottles, and a clad 1965 dime.

I really wish the lip of the Orange Crush bottle hadn't been broken. The patent date on it is July 20, 1920. I thought the medicine bottles were interesting, especially the two older ones with screw tops.

Sorry about not getting a pic of the dime, but it was in my pocket and I forgot to take the picture. But, hey, it is only a badly tarnished clad dime that was found on the surface. Evidently, the dozer had exposed it.

For those of you that remember the old plow that was there and suggested I try to get it, I wish I had listened. It had been bulldozed into a trash pile and was destroyed. Oh, well, the wife would have shot me for bringing it home anyway. FWIW, it was a McCormack-Deering.

Mike

 

[nealb]

Nice bottles there digger!

 

[Michiganne]

Sweet bottles, Digger. Any idea what was is the blue or green bottles? Blue one maybe Philip's Milk of Magnesia? Just a guess as I'm too young to remember those.

Keep digging!

 

[TreasureTales]

Blue bottle is Bromo Seltzer (says so on the bottom) and the green one looks like a Canada Dry Ginger Ale bottle. The small, clear glass bottle on the right in the first photo looks like a baby food jar. The Orange Crush bottle is nice, despite the damage to the lip. Nice stuff! Bummer about the plow, but maybe the blade is still intact and worth keeping?

 

[Nana40]

So ya came home lookin like yer avatar, huh?

Don't know what it is, but the blue bottles always catch my eye! Super finds!

Congrats! Nana

 

[Yarrum]

Nice bottles you gotta be happy with that. Thanks for sharing.

 

[Green1]

 

[dave-enc]

nice bottles , I always like seeing old bottles,
wtg
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dave+bobbie

 

[wildrider]

I like your Avatar too.

Do you have a little trailer like that?

What does it include (sorry off topic) send a link if you can.

but, I might like one on a prospecting trip to protect me from bears, mtn lions, snakes and be a little more comfortable than the ground.

Burt

 

[Trash Digger]

Sweet bottles, Digger. Any idea what was is the blue or green bottles? Blue one maybe Philip's Milk of Magnesia? Just a guess as I'm too young to remember those.

Keep digging!

TreasureTales nailed the bottle IDs. The blue one is indeed Bromo Seltzer by Emerson Drug Company. The green one I figured is either Ginger Ale or Mountain Dew, probably from the '70s.

I like your Avatar too.

Do you have a little trailer like that?

What does it include (sorry off topic) send a link if you can.

but, I might like one on a prospecting trip to protect me from bears, mtn lions, snakes and be a little more comfortable than the ground.

Burt

Sorry, Burt, I'm not quite sure what you are asking. If you mean a trailer to carry my stuff in, no, I don't have one. I just put everything in the back of my truck.

So ya came home lookin like yer avatar, huh?

Congrats! Nana

Yeah, Nana, you nailed it!

Blue bottle is Bromo Seltzer (says so on the bottom) and the green one looks like a Canada Dry Ginger Ale bottle. The small, clear glass bottle on the right in the first photo looks like a baby food jar. The Orange Crush bottle is nice, despite the damage to the lip. Nice stuff! Bummer about the plow, but maybe the blade is still intact and worth keeping?

I found the blade on my first trip there. I took it and laid it on the plow. It was nowhere to be found this time.

Mike