New surface dump gives up a few bottles UPDATE: Found a few more beauties!

GLASSHOPPER1955

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Had some excess energy to burn off :lol: so hit the woods where I saw some broken glass last Spring. Forgot a shovel so probe-dug a few really common 1920s bottles. There was a lot of broken ones including some sodas and milks :mad:. There is more to dig so I'll return as time and weather allows either this fall or next year. BTW the Smith Bros. is cough syrup by those same two bearded gents who gave us their cough drops. The last pic is a Hammond Brewing Co. beer from circa 1915 which would have had a label. Info: http://www.oldbreweries.com/breweri...-il-1-brewery/west-hammond-brewing-co-il-25b/ BTW, West Hammond, Illinois changed it's name to Calumet City in 1923. Since then, many have called it "Sin City" for obvious reasons. ;)

Update: Found a few nice Deco sodas and an Ink with a 1.5" bottle inside. The Lomax is from Chicago (1926), Hobart, Ind. Bottling Works (undated, 1920s), United Bottling Co. Gary, Ind. (undated 1920s). The ink is unembossed, and the tiny bottle that was inside it says "Cutex" on the bottom, nail polish.
 

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Those are some nice bottles, I’ve found a few decent ones but never really went hunting for them. Can’t resist bringing them home though lol.


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Those are some nice bottles, I’ve found a few decent ones but never really went hunting for them. Can’t resist bringing them home though lol.


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Look here for bottle information - LOTS of good info on here:
https://sha.org/bottle/websitemap.htm

Also here:
http://www.antiquebottles.com/dating.html

And here: http://www.bottlepickers.com/index.htm

https://inkspotantiques.com/bottles.htm

https://minnetrista.net/blog/2013/06/27/ball-family-history/how-to-date-a-ball-jar/
 
Those California Fig Syrup bottles are what got my brother and I into digging bottles, we were 10 and 11 years old and found a bunch of them in an old dump little did we know that it would end up with 40 years of bottle digging madness!
 
Great finds there Glasshopper! I wish I could be digging still! I'm snowed out for the rest of the season. Time to get the skis and snow shoes out!!
 
Great finds, you got them cleaned up nice.
 
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How did you clean them? They look brand new [emoji2962]


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They were in shallow black dirt with very little rusted metal. Those usually clean up nice. I did have to scratch off a little rust followed by some #0000 steel wool. The dumps I hate are the ones with the lighter debris-laden dirt. Old town dumps are a good example of those. Most bottles in those are very worn/cloudy and require tumbling. The type of dirt bottles are in usually determines how degraded the bottles will be.
 
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I see you've been doing some glass hopping lately! Nice finds. Your posts are making me want to go dig. Planning a dump dig with my brother today. Hope to come out with some goods.
 
I see you've been doing some glass hopping lately! Nice finds. Your posts are making me want to go dig. Planning a dump dig with my brother today. Hope to come out with some goods.

Yeah It's turning colder around here and the leaves will be falling so I wanted to do some last-season hunting before everything's covered up. And, I have some foot/blood circulation issues (which are in the process of being addressed) so I am trying to beat the cold. I do have some dumps lined up for next spring so hopefully we'll dig some more goodies then. :yes:
 
Nice finds. Your post brought me back to what got me started in the bottle digging hobby. Then I became more serious and started digging only dumps say 1870 and older snubbing post 1900's dumps ; they were common. Well guess what ? ; the early virgin dumps became impossible to find and I quit digging. I became too serious and as your post shows missed out on a lot of fun digging. Have fun; that's what its all about.
 
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