The mister found a rather short fat brown bottle today

[CoilyGirl]

We have been hunting this yard for the past week or so,been about three times and found nothing really as far as old ( Civil War was fought in and around this area and many relics have been dug in the past in this neighborhood.),no bullets even but one area of their yard used to have tons of bamboo in it and was recently cleared but is a bugger and a half to dig.Anyway,today my husband dug up two old metal signs in the bamboo area and found this bottle sticking up out of the dirt. There is a gnarly little row of bushes past the bamboo that could probably be detected by me later when the ticks go away. I do know that where there is a huge church behind this yard that was also the former site of old house from the 1800's and the church was a hospital in the CW for Union soldiers. I do not think that bottle is that old but we used to live in the area several years ago and found turn of the century bottles behind a brick wall near where the church and old house sat. Hoping someone can help ID this bottle,obviously not a screw top.I am going back to the yard tomorrow an scratch around in the dirt a little bit where I get some signals.We ran out of daylight today.

 

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[CoilyGirl]

On the bottom of the bottom is embossed with the words no deposit,a star,and then the words no return and on the bottom is embossed Pat.Pend. And the numbers 62,33(in a circle), and 73.

 

[surf]

Hey Coily,

It's a circa 1973 wide mouth barrel shaped beer bottle.

Several brewers used the form. It was made infamous by Mickey's Malt Liquor...

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[CoilyGirl]

Thanks for the info Surf.Not ancient but a few years before my prime high school years,lol!interestingly enough one of the last places we detected kept finding Schmidt beer tops and knew that brand was long gone. Maybe today I'll see if I can find one older ones.

 

[Bass]

I used to guzzle the ole mickey's big mouth beer in my college days. It was cheap and efficient

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