Thought I would share these pics.

[jgas]

Hello, I posted this the other day on the Today's Finds. Thought I would post these pics here too. Dug about a foot and a half down in the middle of a bean field. Out popped this cool bottle. Thanks for looking. jgas

 

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[Mackaydon]

Great finds!!
Here the history behind the Swamp Root bottle.
http://www.bottlebooks.com/drkilmer.htm

Don..

 

[DigginThePast]

Very cool bottle. What made you dig in that spot?

 

[jgas]

Hey diggin, I was at the back of an older home, circa 1860, and they finally harvested the bean field. My buddy and I started hunting the field and 10 rows in and I got a penny signal. I found the large metal band that was most likely wrapped around the pottery that I found in the hole with the intact bottle. Appears to be an isolated find and not from a privy or outhouse cause it's just too far from the house. Strange for sure, but one of my favorite finds so far...and I just saw it made the Banner.. Thanks for the reply.....jgas

 

[Mackaydon]

This mark with the cipher ELP Co. and the words WACO China found on dinnerware made from 1896 to 1901. The company first made plain and decorated ironstone China. In 1896, it switched to making semivitreous dinnerware. A line of this china was named Waco. This pottery, the East Liverpool Pottery Company, was started by John W. and Robert Hall in East Liverpool, Ohio, in 1894. It merged with five other small potteries in 1901 to form the East Liverpool Potteries Company. The Halls left the group in 1903 and started the more famous Hall China Company.
The source of this text and a pic of the mark is found here:
http://www.kovels.com/eletter/archives/14/30574.html

 

[Da Sand Crab]

I would go back with a spring steel bottle probe and spend some serious time hunting. Who know what still lies in wait.

 

[jgas]

SWR, the word ot letters read possibly EARIN There is also a stamped area to the right of that. Circular with some other letters or numbers that I just cannot read. I hope this helps for identification. thanks for all the help too. jgas

 

[jgas]

Wow even older than the bottle. Cool stuff. I think I need to go back there and look for the privy. What do you think? Worth it? Just not sure how to do it, or how to use a probe. But I shall learn if I want to find more. jgas