Oh, baby; now computer trouble

halfdime · Nov 17, 2008

I went out to my foundation site deep in the woods with DrDetector yesterday; we spent most of our time removing brush and moving stones so we could detect close to the foundation. We didn't manage any coins, but we did find a few interesting relics. Some of them were non-metallic; the Dr will post and picture his at some point. My favorite was a surface find, some distance away from the foundation itself, and my trusty computer won't recognize that I have a picture card in the USB port so I can't show a picture right now >:(

. It's the broken top of a milk bottle; some bottles had a bulb near the top for cream, and this was one of them. However, this bulb has the image of a baby's face formed in it, and the words "A BETTER BOTTLE OF MILK" just below the rim. Hopefully, I'll be able to get the pictures loaded, but I'm hoping that we have an expert who can identify the age and other pertinent information about the bottle from that description. We're convinced that there is a dump somewhere in the vicinity; this foundation is in a rather remote spot, and the people who lived there back when had to do something with bottles and whatnot. We're not finding coins (yet), but those aren't the only treasures worth finding.

LadyDigger · Nov 17, 2008

halfdime said:
I went out to my foundation site deep in the woods with DrDetector yesterday; we spent most of our time removing brush and moving stones so we could detect close to the foundation. We didn't manage any coins, but we did find a few interesting relics. Some of them were non-metallic; the Dr will post and picture his at some point. My favorite was a surface find, some distance away from the foundation itself, and my trusty computer won't recognize that I have a picture card in the USB port so I can't show a picture right now . It's the broken top of a milk bottle; some bottles had a bulb near the top for cream, and this was one of them. However, this bulb has the image of a baby's face formed in it, and the words "A BETTER BOTTLE OF MILK" just below the rim. Hopefully, I'll be able to get the pictures loaded, but I'm hoping that we have an expert who can identify the age and other pertinent information about the bottle from that description. We're convinced that there is a dump somewhere in the vicinity; this foundation is in a rather remote spot, and the people who lived there back when had to do something with bottles and whatnot. We're not finding coins (yet), but those aren't the only treasures worth finding.

Would it be one listed on this link: http://dairyantiques.com/Cream_Separating_Bottles.html

halfdime · Nov 17, 2008

That article appears to cover the Baby Top bottles, including the one I found. Unfortunately, I only have the top, so no dairy identification is available. These bottles were introduced in the late 1930's, it appears; I would guess the house still existed then. The Dr and I were surmising that this house may have been all stone, given the huge amount that's there and the amount that have already been removed from the site. It's likely that the roof and supporting structures were wood, of course, with probably a slate roof. I'll have to do some research on this site over the winter. Thanks to Ron and Ann for this information!

LadyDigger · Nov 17, 2008

halfdime said:
That article appears to cover the Baby Top bottles, including the one I found. Unfortunately, I only have the top, so no dairy identification is available. These bottles were introduced in the late 1930's, it appears; I would guess the house still existed then. The Dr and I were surmising that this house may have been all stone, given the huge amount that's there and the amount that have already been removed from the site. It's likely that the roof and supporting structures were wood, of course, with probably a slate roof. I'll have to do some research on this site over the winter. Thanks to Ron and Ann for this information!

You are quite welcomed! Check for old land plats from the 1900-1940 time frame, based on the assumption of the bottle age. Also, check for any dairies in that location. They may have supplied that bottle of milk to the home owners. Maybe you can find something in the historical society of the area as well. Good luck on your research. Look forward to updates!
Annmarie

Mirage · Nov 17, 2008

Henry,
Sometimes computers will not "show" the USB as a disk drive even though it is there. One way around this is to open either a photo editor or a Word document. From within that application do a file , open (for the photo editor) and then browse for the file. Once you open it you can save it to your hard drive. For some reason you can view the USB drive through the photo editor but windows explorer & my computer doesn't.

Bob

mastereagle22 · Nov 17, 2008

You can also go to Control Panel, Administrative Tools, Computer Management, then on the left hand side look for disc management, double click that. See if the drive is showing up there if it is RIGHT click and choose to change drive letter. Give it a letter between say Q and Z and then close that box it. It should then show up in the drive list.

The majority of times when you have something not showing up from the USB side it is because the OS is trying to assign the same letter to your USB device as a physical drive in your system. My computer kept wanting to give my USB drives the letter F which is already taken by a mapped network drive. I changed their drive letter to T and I have had NO problem since.

alwayslookin · Nov 17, 2008

ALSO re: USB drive. You can look at your task bar and see if there are andy other USB drives listed and if so the click on it at the task bar andd ssafely remove it. Sometimes the OS gets hung up if you add and remove your USB device many times without doing this step.

Dave

halfdime · Nov 17, 2008

Here is a picture from the website listed above, showing Baby Top milk bottles.

allen · Nov 17, 2008

good luck on that site..it sounds like a good one...

halfdime · Nov 19, 2008

Thanks for all the advice on my computer problem; being technically unsavvy, I wasn't able to make the directions work for me. What I did, when I started up the computer again, was try again and it worked. This has happened before, now that I recall. Here are pictures of the broken Baby Top milk bottle.

LadyDigger · Nov 19, 2008

halfdime said:
Thanks for all the advice on my computer problem; being technically unsavvy, I wasn't able to make the directions work for me. What I did, when I started up the computer again, was try again and it worked. This has happened before, now that I recall. Here are pictures of the broken Baby Top milk bottle.

From your pic...looks like yours is the one in the pic with four of them...to be the one on the very far right....

That is cool. Too bad it's not the whole bottle, but I bet if you get back, you may find one!!! Good Luck!
Annmarie