COBALT BLUE BROMO BOTTLES

[SHERMANVILLE ILLINOIS]

..Two that were dug at different locations.

Bottle on left from site early 1900, bottle right 1930's site.

About 2 3/4 inch tall.

Common and do not carry any real value, but enjoy finding them and they look good in home window.

S

 

[JakePhelps]

Heres my cobolt blue collection A bromo caffeine and 2 vicks jars.

 

[SHERMANVILLE ILLINOIS]

J P

nice; did you dig them; the bromo caffeine looks older; any dates?

S

 

[JakePhelps]

Nope i only dug the two vicks jars, the bromo my grandma gave me awhile ago. This one is 1800's. The one in the left on ur pic looks really old too.

 

[JakePhelps]

You have been finding some great bottles Do you dig privies or old dump sites?

 

[Nana40]

Beautiful bottles Sherman!!!

 

[SHERMANVILLE ILLINOIS]

PC,

most of the good dumps I find seem to only go down one or two feet, and then die out.

Use the word dig but would have to say I scrape the ground with my trowel. Once I locate what could be a full bottle, (lots and lots of broken in these dumps, plus other items); I use a long, thin screwdriver to work around the bottle once I see it. A small eight by eight dump will take me several visits to clean out. Some days, after digging for several hours and only getting broken pieces, I want to tear the site up with a shovel and get it over with, but sometimes a pit is just bad and has only broken. Also used a plastic rake at one location that covered a large area; ( rake, scrape, dig, scrape, rake); By the time I was done the rake was down to nubs and I left it in the dump.

good hunting

have a good un.............
SHERMANVILLE ILLINOIS