More buttons than bottles!

[DiggerDave in Pa.]

I finally got to dig the third privy hole at my neighbors. This pit was pretty close to the house probably the oldest. The small rectangle shaped bottle was the only one intact. The ribbon seal bottle was on the bottom of the hole. I thought it was intact only to find the pontil broken into the bottom. I glued the piece back into place and it looks fine. It's my oldest bottle of the year. I found the buttons in the slop when I filled the hole in. The nice broken bottles include 2 Dr. Townsends Sarsaparilla's, Good Game flask and a small shell shaped perfume. These people were hard on their bottles. The stoneware pieces are all locally made and the porcelain looked early as well. I am planning on digging some local pits back out and metal detecting the dirt in them. It is hard to say what I have missed over the years! Better luck next time! Thanks for looking! DD.

 

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[Baldingboy]

Wow...I bet that was fun! You got some excellent finds there.

 

[bootyhoundpa]

wow..... you certainly are at an old spot....many years ago when i ran with a group that did a lot of privy diggin there was this old man who used to ran the bottom foot of soil through a sifter...he used to find nice coins that way....

 

[Skrimpy]

oooooo boy! That bottle with the deer on it would be worth a pretty penny if it weren't broken!

 

[gleaner1]

That is a hell of a privy right there. I sense that black glass wrap-around seal is super rare, but I am not too good at the early stuff.
DiggerDave thanks for posting this!

 

[gleaner1]

This is a great post showing the tendency not to throw away perfectly good bottles, way back in the day. This is the curse of the early privy diggers. I guess some of these pieces date to the 1840's. That is a really nice little clear perfume, never seen one clear. Nice work DiggerDave

 

[steelheadwill]

Congrats on that 'Black Beauty'