jgas
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Howdy all Glass folks,
Got the chance to go back to the Detroit Ink pit and dig it’s sister that was a foot away. As you can see I usually mark the square with paint. I marked this a week or more in advance and luckily it was still marked good as the homeowner kinda mowed over the area. Talk about a fantastic dude that has allowed us to dig up some history. I started out on my own as Don was getting on site a bit later. So I had to chop through quite a few vines and roots. They were down a foot or more before I was able to get a full shovel full of dirt. Gotta be a little hater towards vines. Those boogers are tough. So finally after an hour of digging I was able to get to some glass.
Very first whole bottle I see is paneled and I could see some embossing so that is a good sign. Pulled it out and it’s a fairly scarce Dr. Eliels Liver Regulator. They come in cobalt as well. Then out pops another one and then one more but it had a hole in it. Awesome start!
By now Don was arriving as I was taking some insitu pictures of some whiskeys and wine bottles. I continued when Don arrived but I was pretty smoked so he got in on the use layer. We were seeing quite a few slicks and some pieces of lamps and shoe leathers. After he cleared out all the broken chamber pots I jumped back in and uncovered a shattered Cigar Jar. These are pretty rare and we have never gotten one whole. So I found all 4 pieces and glued it back together just to have an example of one. Circa 1890-94. Love that color.
We finished up this pit and moved right in front of these pits to dig what we thought was a full blown ash pit. But I had my suspicion as I could feel a large gap when I probed. So we trudged on through the huge layer of ash and finally a small cap area where we started seeing pottery, glass and plates. We couldn’t believe the amount of items that were showing. Pulled out several Liverpool crocks and a sweet marmalade crock. Grabbed up a cool blob beer and a couple Chicago Monarch Brewery bottles. Even popped out three larger cobalt Bromo’s Funny thing was we never got another ink. Strange. You sure could tell the ages of all three pits. As we got closer to the house they became younger. What’s got me fairly interested is that there is a shallow pit further back from these which I hope is the pit used when building the home. If so it should date to 1878-80. Fingers crossed. Hope you like the pics. Haven’t had a chance to clean em all up yet but I’m sure I will get to it. Thanks for looking and good luck out there everyone. Be safe! Jgas.
Got the chance to go back to the Detroit Ink pit and dig it’s sister that was a foot away. As you can see I usually mark the square with paint. I marked this a week or more in advance and luckily it was still marked good as the homeowner kinda mowed over the area. Talk about a fantastic dude that has allowed us to dig up some history. I started out on my own as Don was getting on site a bit later. So I had to chop through quite a few vines and roots. They were down a foot or more before I was able to get a full shovel full of dirt. Gotta be a little hater towards vines. Those boogers are tough. So finally after an hour of digging I was able to get to some glass.
Very first whole bottle I see is paneled and I could see some embossing so that is a good sign. Pulled it out and it’s a fairly scarce Dr. Eliels Liver Regulator. They come in cobalt as well. Then out pops another one and then one more but it had a hole in it. Awesome start!
By now Don was arriving as I was taking some insitu pictures of some whiskeys and wine bottles. I continued when Don arrived but I was pretty smoked so he got in on the use layer. We were seeing quite a few slicks and some pieces of lamps and shoe leathers. After he cleared out all the broken chamber pots I jumped back in and uncovered a shattered Cigar Jar. These are pretty rare and we have never gotten one whole. So I found all 4 pieces and glued it back together just to have an example of one. Circa 1890-94. Love that color.
We finished up this pit and moved right in front of these pits to dig what we thought was a full blown ash pit. But I had my suspicion as I could feel a large gap when I probed. So we trudged on through the huge layer of ash and finally a small cap area where we started seeing pottery, glass and plates. We couldn’t believe the amount of items that were showing. Pulled out several Liverpool crocks and a sweet marmalade crock. Grabbed up a cool blob beer and a couple Chicago Monarch Brewery bottles. Even popped out three larger cobalt Bromo’s Funny thing was we never got another ink. Strange. You sure could tell the ages of all three pits. As we got closer to the house they became younger. What’s got me fairly interested is that there is a shallow pit further back from these which I hope is the pit used when building the home. If so it should date to 1878-80. Fingers crossed. Hope you like the pics. Haven’t had a chance to clean em all up yet but I’m sure I will get to it. Thanks for looking and good luck out there everyone. Be safe! Jgas.
