Metal Detecting, Found Bottle?

[jgas]

Went out to the same farm Don and I have been hunting recently. They finally harvested the bean fields around the house. This is really our first time to do a hunt like this. We usually hunt just the yard area, but the owners said they found pottery shards in the fields after plowing. So we thought what the heck, let's go out there and see what we could find.

Started out fairly slow with just a few snap buttons and the usual trash metal targets. After about an hour Don got a crusty wheatie that had been fried from the pesticides and chemicals from the field. It looked like a 1950 something .

Then after a break and a change of batteries in the Pro6000 I told Don to hunt on the west side of the home in the field. For some reason I was getting the "vibe" and thought we would get something there. Well, I was right. His first target was a 1909 O Barber Dime. Pretty toasted as well. Then I got a Whats it thing that says"Lift at the Dot." Not sure what that was. Then I got a decent penny type signal that was fairly deep. Dug a decent sized hole but the target was deeper. Shoved the pinpointer all the way down into the soft dirt and barely picked it up. Took a couple more shovel fulls of dirt and finally hit something but it was glass. Then I really got careful with the shovel. I did find what was was sounding off, a large circular piece of steel about a foot in diameter. After getting that out of the ground I noticed more glass and then I found what appeared to be an intact bottle. Carefully digging the bottle out, I discovered a Dr. Kilmers bottle. The thing was about a foot and a half deep. Also found a smaller bottle that is very thick. Plus shards of china. If anyone knows anything about the china(date). Please let me know. The Kilmer bottle dates to 1906 I guess. After the Indiana Jones style dig I went on to find a buckle patented Dec. of 1879. Then the sun went down We shall return. That was our first bottle find and I have to say that was nearly better than finding an old coin.......nearly . Be safe out there....jgas

 

[nova]

That is one good looking bottle if I ever seen one. Very nice find.



Nova

 

[goldencoin]

Sweet bottle!

HH
-GC

 

[oldgold]

Great Bottle!!

 

[RPG]

Awesome bottle.

Post it on the bottle and glass forum. Those guys can tell you alot about it. Maybe worth some bucks.

 

[Ammo Dog]

Cool Bottle.

 

[boondocker]

the "lift the dot" thing is from WW2 web gear, like a cartridge belt, canteen cover etc. that was the snap that held the cover of something down, it snapped onto a post to hold the cover down. Dean

 

[silverfreak]

That bottle is SWEET

 

[crazyjarhead]

Sweet aqua bottle

 

[Newt]

Great bottle. Might be an early "homesite" dump.
Newt

 

[nova treasure]

nice finds, Great save on the bottle, coming out of a worked field in that condition is a excellent save. here is some info on it.

By 1895 the company had a line of 18 different medicines: Of these the most common was the Swamp Root. The bottle of which has an embossed label area in the shape of a kidney. The embossing reads: " THE GREAT / DR. / KILMER’S / SWAMP / ROOT / KIDNEY / LIVER & . BLADDER / CURE / SPECIFIC". The bottle was made in a sample, small and large size. Only the large has the embossed kidney. Sometime after the passage of the Food and Drug Act of 1906, the word "CURE" was dropped in favor of the word, "REMEDY". Even later, the embossing was dropped but the embossed kidney panel was retained. Believe it or not one can still buy "Swamp Root" today complete with a portrait of Andral S. Kilmer.

Nova Treasure

 

[shootist]

That is a sweet lookin bottle,the busted poison in the last pic is a heartbreaker as they are about the most sought after type of bottle,and the silver is always a great find,HH...Shoot

 

[allen]

good job on that sweet bottle !!

 

[Ricky1601 aka pull tab king]

nice finds, thanks for sharing and hh

 

[fistfulladirt]

Jgas that Kilmer's Swamp Root cure is one of my all-time favorites! Brings back memories of my first dump diggings.....one of the first best bottles i ever found.....years and years ago! Thanks for bringing back those memories. ffd

 

[Mr Tuff]

wow on the great glass find that is way better n a coin!!!!! MR TUFF

 

[artzstuff1]

Very nice stuff,,,jgas,, that bottle is sweet!!! I love finding that kind of stuff!!!!

I bet that stuff in there would mess a guy up!!!!



arthur

 

[ModernMiner]

the "lift the dot" thing is from WW2 web gear, like a cartridge belt, canteen cover etc. that was the snap that held the cover of something down, it snapped onto a post to hold the cover down. Dean

Dean,
Thanks for that info. I dig those often and I always wondered what they were.
-MM-

Fantastic looking bottle & nice relics.
Congrats,
MM

 

[relic lover]

There is a common and rare version of that bottle I used to own a common version.

 

[briankb70]

nice bottle