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As it turns out, the area Scotk9 and I have been digging is not the "old town dump" as we'd originally believed. For starters, there just isn't enough junk. Most likely it's debris from inside and around the farmhouse that used to occupy the site where the auto body shop Scotk9 works in now stands. Anywho.... Surf? Forget those other bottles. Most of them were probably old curealls, condiments, and shoe polish. Check out what we found today... I'll let Scotk9 post his own pictures, but here is what I took home:
1913 Pennsylvania license plate
Coolest looking bottle I've ever seen
Japanese salt & pepper shakers
Hind's Honey & Almond Cream, A.S. Hinds Co., Bloomfield NJ U.S.A.
Decorative ceramic urn - yes, that is a tree root growing through it
Glass butter dish
Small syrup jar
Another one of Professor Dill's curealls from Norristown, PA - this is larger than the first one from last week
First few from the new hole
Kids' fork - nonmetallic; thinking Bakelite, maybe?
I also happened to find 3 more horseshoes before Scotk9 made it outside to join me. Two have the toe grab and spooned heels, one is a bar type. The first one I found (last week) resembles the first two from today; the bar type was unique. We dug out 4 intact cobalt milk of magnesia bottles and 2 broken ones that Scotk9 kept, about 6-8 beer/liquor bottle types that he took for his breweriana collection, what is probably a large IPA bottle but looked cool anyway that he also took, and a bunch more medicinal and condiment bottles that we tossed aside. I also brought home a pair of makeup compacts that are in ACV, although they're probably empty. There was also a silver-plated spoon, it's pretty toasted but I'll try to get a hallmark off it later.
Oh yeah, did I mention the green Ball mason jar? I already had 2 aqua ones here at home (plus the 15 other clear ones I found at a different site) so Scotk9 took that as well. I hope it cleaned up nicely, my dating chart puts it at 1910-1923. Would love to see a nice pic of that!
Gonna take these horseshoes to work to be grit-blasted tomorrow afternoon. I'll post pics when I'm satisfied with their cleanliness.
Turned over 3 boxes of period artifacts to the Hatfield Museum & History Society tonight. The HMHS president had a pretty wide grin when he saw it all
1913 Pennsylvania license plate
Coolest looking bottle I've ever seen
Japanese salt & pepper shakers
Hind's Honey & Almond Cream, A.S. Hinds Co., Bloomfield NJ U.S.A.
Decorative ceramic urn - yes, that is a tree root growing through it
Glass butter dish
Small syrup jar
Another one of Professor Dill's curealls from Norristown, PA - this is larger than the first one from last week
First few from the new hole
Kids' fork - nonmetallic; thinking Bakelite, maybe?
I also happened to find 3 more horseshoes before Scotk9 made it outside to join me. Two have the toe grab and spooned heels, one is a bar type. The first one I found (last week) resembles the first two from today; the bar type was unique. We dug out 4 intact cobalt milk of magnesia bottles and 2 broken ones that Scotk9 kept, about 6-8 beer/liquor bottle types that he took for his breweriana collection, what is probably a large IPA bottle but looked cool anyway that he also took, and a bunch more medicinal and condiment bottles that we tossed aside. I also brought home a pair of makeup compacts that are in ACV, although they're probably empty. There was also a silver-plated spoon, it's pretty toasted but I'll try to get a hallmark off it later.
Oh yeah, did I mention the green Ball mason jar? I already had 2 aqua ones here at home (plus the 15 other clear ones I found at a different site) so Scotk9 took that as well. I hope it cleaned up nicely, my dating chart puts it at 1910-1923. Would love to see a nice pic of that!
Gonna take these horseshoes to work to be grit-blasted tomorrow afternoon. I'll post pics when I'm satisfied with their cleanliness.
Turned over 3 boxes of period artifacts to the Hatfield Museum & History Society tonight. The HMHS president had a pretty wide grin when he saw it all
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