Not so lucky... but I had fun!

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Made a nice hole. Tons of broken glass and trash. Found a nice ceramic piece and a milk embossed with only "ONE QUART". The ceiling started to crack at 7:00 PM and did collapse... "Always beware of your surroundings"... Over 5 hours in that hole took it's toll. Mahalo Gang... I had fun!
 

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It looks like you must have pulled a few bottles out of that hole ???

Even if they're not Hawaiian BIMALs, they still count in my book :headbang:

Show em if you got em!!!
 

Hey man looks like you worked it hard. That's the way to do it. No worry going pay off. :headbang:
 

nice looking little dish.
 

cntrydncr1 said:
nice looking little dish.

Thanks!... I rarely find these intact after being buried under tons of soil. My wife loves these "blue & whites" as it puts a smile on her face until she sees my digging cloths :laughing7:
 

808beginnerdigger said:
Found a milk embossed with only "ONE QUART".
I've been having fun figuring out the dates of the machine made (ABM) bottles that have been coming out of my backyard :tongue3:
If you are interested in knowing the date that milk bottle was made (I know I am), just post a picture of the maker marks on the base.
Note: sometimes these marks will instead be on the bottom edge above the base :read2:

Alternately, you could just describe them. The most likely ones would be an "O" in a square, an "I" in an "O" superimposed on an elongated diamond, "IPGCo" in a diamond, or "IPG" in a triangle. The numbers are also important, especially the number just to the right of the maker mark!
 

sodetraveler said:
808beginnerdigger said:
Found a milk embossed with only "ONE QUART".
I've been having fun figuring out the dates of the machine made (ABM) bottles that have been coming out of my backyard :tongue3:
If you are interested in knowing the date that milk bottle was made (I know I am), just post a picture of the maker marks on the base.
Note: sometimes these marks will instead be on the bottom edge above the base :read2:

Alternately, you could just describe them. The most likely ones would be an "O" in a square, an "I" in an "O" superimposed on an elongated diamond, "IPGCo" in a diamond, or "IPG" in a triangle. The numbers are also important, especially the number just to the right of the maker mark!
There is only embossed numbers "217 5" at the base of the bottle edge. No other marks on the bottle except for that and the words "ONE QUART". Bottle is heavily stained. Thanks!
 

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808beginnerdigger said:
There is only embossed numbers "217 5" at the base of the bottle edge. No other marks on the bottle except for that and the words "ONE QUART". Bottle is heavily stained. Thanks!

Hmmmm......that's a tough one! :icon_scratch:

Some of the very earliest ABM bottles didn't have maker marks - it looks like you've got one of those!

The 217 is probably a mold number......

The 5 may be a date code for 1915. Hard to say for sure, but it fits in with the other stuff you pulled out of the hole (i.e. the Honolulu Brewing & Malting shard).
 

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