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Post by vegasjames on Jun 28, 2013 16:26:47 GMT -5
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Sabre52
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Post by Sabre52 on Jun 28, 2013 16:35:37 GMT -5
I love old bottles. Used to go bottle digging all the time and had hundreds. Sold most all of them before out Texas move but saved a few that have special memories associated with them. Always cool to dig up a piece of history....Mel
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Post by helens on Jun 28, 2013 21:39:11 GMT -5
I love old bottles too, but mostly perfume/cologne bottles with intact labels. That's a cool looking one in excellent condition... no devitrification at all. Bet there's a lot of amazing old bottles with interesting stories out there in the desert.
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Post by jakesrocks on Jun 28, 2013 22:33:53 GMT -5
LOL. You guys keep showing old bottles, and I'll be forced to dig out a crate full that are stashed in the basement. Some with glass stoppers.
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snuffy
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Post by snuffy on Jun 28, 2013 22:38:18 GMT -5
Don,I got a hundred I can dig out!LOL
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Post by jakesrocks on Jun 28, 2013 22:42:25 GMT -5
Cool. Bring em out. we need pics.
I'm working on permission to dig an old outhouse pit at an abandoned farm up the hill from me. I already have permission to metal detect the property around the buildings. The farm dates back to the late 1800's.
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Post by vegasjames on Jun 29, 2013 1:28:39 GMT -5
Cool. Bring em out. we need pics. I'm working on permission to dig an old outhouse pit at an abandoned farm up the hill from me. I already have permission to metal detect the property around the buildings. The farm dates back to the late 1800's. Are you sure they are not just trying to trick you in to cleaning out their outhouse for them?  Remember Huckleberry Finn? |
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jamesp
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Post by jamesp on Jun 29, 2013 7:33:43 GMT -5
Nice whiskey bottle. Got some big bubbles. If they are older than some forum members they should be valuable.
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Post by vegasjames on Jun 29, 2013 7:48:34 GMT -5
Nice whiskey bottle. Got some big bubbles. If they are older than some forum members they should be valuable. I think some of the forum members are older than the rocks I collect. |
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Post by jakesrocks on Jun 29, 2013 7:59:18 GMT -5
Cool. Bring em out. we need pics. I'm working on permission to dig an old outhouse pit at an abandoned farm up the hill from me. I already have permission to metal detect the property around the buildings. The farm dates back to the late 1800's. Are you sure they are not just trying to trick you in to cleaning out their outhouse for them? Remember Huckleberry Finn?  LOL, the outhouse is long since gone, and the hole filled with farm trash and dirt. All of the nasty stuff is now compost. I may have located at least one more spot on the acre or so around the farm house where there was an outhouse. Shallow depression in the ground about the same size as the pit I want to dig. The owner of the land, an old woman now lives in a nursing home in Sioux Falls, but her relatives bring her up here every 4th of July for a family get together. It's being arranged for me to speak with her. |
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jamesp
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Post by jamesp on Jun 29, 2013 8:06:35 GMT -5
Apparently not too old to dig up an outhouse..
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Post by jakesrocks on Jun 29, 2013 9:15:03 GMT -5
Nope ! I missed out on the chance to dig one a few years back. I did manage to salvage a DeLavale cream separator from the surface of that one. When it was time to move the outhouse and fill the old hole, anything that was no longer being used went down those holes before being filled in with dirt from the new outhouse hole. Those old holes can be a treasure trove.
Oh, and after being filled in for 20 or more years, they don't even stink anymore. All of the nasty stuff has long since turned into nice rich heavily composted dirt.
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Post by Fossilman on Jun 29, 2013 10:49:01 GMT -5
Before we moved out here to Oregon,I sold most of my bottle collection....The plain bottles(no matter what there were) just went for a few dollars to maybe six dollars..The milk bottles went for twelve bucks a piece....The darker blue bottles went the highest,some were fifteen dollars a piece..
One time were were shingling an old church and I went into the bell tower to snope around,found an old whiskey bottle in behind the wall...
I have lots of glass stoppers still in a box somewhere...
Some rarer bottles are high on market price going for $50 to $100 a piece,but never had any of those kind of finds...
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Remember Huckleberry Finn?
LOL, the outhouse is long since gone, and the hole filled with farm trash and dirt. All of the nasty stuff is now compost. I may have located at least one more spot on the acre or so around the farm house where there was an outhouse. Shallow depression in the ground about the same size as the pit I want to dig. The owner of the land, an old woman now lives in a nursing home in Sioux Falls, but her relatives bring her up here every 4th of July for a family get together. It's being arranged for me to speak with her.
