Got a few keepers today

[CTpilgrim]

Found a new dump with a lot of promise yesterday and I was able to snag a few keepers among a lot of heartbreak. The dump is behind a house built in 1744 and there are several old houses nearby so this may have been a community dump. All of the stuff is very shallow, maybe 12-18 inches deep which is probably why most of it is broken. Right off the bat I found the bottom of an open pontil bitters bottle from south reading mass and several other pieces of open pontil bottles. I also found several pieces of broken drakes bitters bottles so I’m hoping that some of the good ones may have survived. Anyway I was able to grab a few whole ones which I’m sure to seasoned bottle diggers are like finding wheaties metal detecting but I think they’re awesome. They’re all blank probably medicine bottles and the bigger one was probably an olive jar? I opened up a spot about 12x12 and the place is pretty big so I’ll definitely be headed back there soon.

 

[hoser]

Nice glass. Love old bottles but know zip about them. Looks like you did awesome.

 

[M40bnk]

Cool finds too bad they are slick but that spot looks promising with those Pontil pieces coming out.

 

[cellrdwellr]

Yep most pontils were super thin, very fragile. Once you get below the frost layer, your chances definitely get better at finding complete pieces. Sounds like it may have been poked at, with all the blanks still there. We used to do the same thing, there were so many bottles, the blanks just had to be left behind sometimes. But just like metal detecting, NOONE gets it all. I usually dig straight down until I stop finding glass and then work my way out. Looking forward to the next report, good luck out there!

 

[GLASSHOPPER1955]

You're into good age there. keep digging and you'll find some nice embossed glass. If you have a probe, keep stabbing and look for softer areas and that "crunch" of glass.

 

[too_pointer]

Nice glass. Love old bottles but know zip about them. Looks like you did awesome.

I have a few bottles, Always watching for them. My bro-in-law knows alot more about the bottles than me.
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[Dejure]

My parents used to co-own a bottle-rock-antique shop in Eastern Washington. To stock it, we spent a lot of our youth digging old, long unused dump sites and around old mining and other ghost towns.

We dug up a lot of history. The kind that never makes it into school books and lessons. Palmer's Perfume bottles, for example. The number of them we dug up near an old building told us a lot about how good a business the area was doing back in the day.

Baths were not as common back at the turn of the century, so perfume filled in to camouflage the lack of personal hygiene.

SIDE NOTE: Palmer's perfume bottles came in several sizes and quite an array of greens. For a cheap bottle, they were pretty cool.

 

[GLASSHOPPER1955]

My parents used to co-own a bottle-rock-antique shop in Eastern Washington. To stock it, we spent a lot of our youth digging old, long unused dump sites and around old mining and other ghost towns.

We dug up a lot of history. The kind that never makes it into school books and lessons. Palmer's Perfume bottles, for example. The number of them we dug up near an old building told us a lot about how good a business the area was doing back in the day.

Baths were not as common back at the turn of the century, so perfume filled in to camouflage the lack of personal hygiene.

SIDE NOTE: Palmer's perfume bottles came in several sizes and quite an array of greens. For a cheap bottle, they were pretty cool.

I love finding those emerald green Palmers. Great window bottles too!

 

[Dejure]

Yeah, back in the day, they were considered junk bottles, because they were so common, but they are all but gold to me. Don't even know if I have any in the boxes tucked away in storage.