Ponds Extract

[MuckyBottles]

Did a little wandering at a new site today, given the frigid temps. Found this little gem "Ponds Extract" circa 1880's (Guesstimate)

 

[gunsil]

Nice one!! I dug over a hundred of them in the woods across from me as a teenager. Man, it was cold and windy today, gotta hand it to you for hunting today!!

 

[MuckyBottles]

Nice one!! I dug over a hundred of them in the woods across from me as a teenager. Man, it was cold and windy today, gotta hand it to you for hunting today!!

Found it along the beach on Antonelli st. in a town called "H", I can fill up a 50 gal barrel with the bottles there.

 

[unclemac]

i've picked up a couple on the beach too....over a hundred?....were they drinking them!

 

[gunsil]

i've picked up a couple on the beach too....over a hundred?....were they drinking them!

The dump I refer to was 70 yards long, 20 yards wide, and three feet deep. Took me three years of digging most of the summer to get most of it excavated, probably pulled 3,000 bottles out of there. For some reason there were a lot of the Pond's bottles there. When I found out they had value I quit mowing lawns and doing yard work for teenage spending money and devoted my time to digging and selling bottles. I made around $4,000 in three summers from 13-16 years old back in the early 1960s. I was rich!!

 

[gunsil]

Found it along the beach on Antonelli st. in a town called "H", I can fill up a 50 gal barrel with the bottles there.

Down in Bricktown, eh?? If you ever get over to my place you'll see the brick walks all made from old bricks we took off the beach there when I was a kid. Must have been biting cold with that wind blowing straight down the river. I went to CT for lunch that day and saw all the whitecaps from the TZB. Hope you get some more good ones there!! That Pond's is in great shape!!

 

[jeff of pa]

cool ! I was exPecting to to see White Glass

 

[unclemac]

like I said...I have found two intact and three others broke at my beach site...I know it is witch hazel in an alcohol base...but what did folks use it for?

 

[PikesPeakCharlie]

The first old bottle I ever found

 

[Bass]

Hey charlie! Where ya been lately

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[PikesPeakCharlie]

Bass, had heart surgery in Feb then computer crashed . Got a new computer and a new pacemaker/defibulator ,arteries are clear,waiting for spring and the thaw

 

[surf]

Geeze, Charlie,

That's some major surgerizing, right there. Glad to hear you're on the mend. Did the docs give you the All Clear?

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[Bass]

Glad to hear that you're ok. I was thinking of putting an APB out on you.

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[bottlehunterofcoscob]

Hope you're feeling better Charlie, look forward to seeing some finds!

 

[Bass]

Sorry to hijack your thread muckybottles but Charlie is a digging legend and we haven't heard from him in a while.

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[MuckyBottles]

Sorry to hijack your thread muckybottles but Charlie is a digging legend and we haven't heard from him in a while.

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Yea Yea...lol j/k Jack away

 

[PikesPeakCharlie]

Mucky , my apologies for the highjacking ,just wanted to comment on your ponds. A big thanks to everyone else. Bass, a legend,yeah in my own mind

 

[MuckyBottles]

Down in Bricktown, eh?? If you ever get over to my place you'll see the brick walks all made from old bricks we took off the beach there when I was a kid. Must have been biting cold with that wind blowing straight down the river. I went to CT for lunch that day and saw all the whitecaps from the TZB. Hope you get some more good ones there!! That Pond's is in great shape!!

It was so cold I started developing the "metal detecting claw". It's kind of a sketchy neighborhood, I will have to hit it in the off hours.

 

[MuckyBottles]

Mucky , my apologies for the highjacking ,just wanted to comment on your ponds. A big thanks to everyone else. Bass, a legend,yeah in my own mind

No worries

 

[MuckyBottles]

From what I've read it cures everything from hemorrhoids to cataracts