AUG 15th Digging Results



Greek

Hello all of you good collectors and curious friends out there. We are still alive and digging. Not every weekend but we will start digging more now that the fall is here. The end of the summer was a scorcher here in the Great Lake State, therefore the ground is totally locked up. That means we cannot probe the ground properly and would miss all the old pits in a yard. We could find some newer ones, but in doing so we would basically be blowing our one time shot in our patrons yards and losing potentially precious pontiled pits.
This last dig was a lot of fun. The home owner was exceptionally nice. He is a close to retiring carpenter with a face that looks to have never scorned a person in is life. He brought us out homemade chocolate chip cookies, and gave us cucumbers and sweet corn from his garden to take home. I should have taken his picture.
60's

The first pit we opened had some real cool pieces about 2 feet down. The bottle above was a beautifully colored late 1860's early 70's beverage bottle. Would this be a hint of things to come?


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The home that belonged to this outhouse was an 1860's Greek Revival built next to a railroad station constructed at the end of the Civil War.
OLDIE

TOO OLD!!(NEVER)













Now this story gets kind of weird here. As we were excavating deeper into this pit, now at about the 3-4 foot level, when would the pontiled bottles start showing up?
DAN

OK,..where are they at,???

Dan was deep down in the hole when I heard him say "here comes one from the very bottom". He pulled it out and it was an automatic bottle machine pop bottle from the 1910's era?


DAN









WHAT'S GO-IN ON HERE








Right when I started to give up Dan made an awsome discovery. Earlier in the hole, where I found the old beverage bottle I noticed some more dishware sticking out of the side wall of the pit. I figured on leaving this extra stuff on the side till later. We where hacking away with our shovel the whole time around this spot not knowing what was lying inches away, this little old historical 1/2 pint flask. For Pikes Peak/Eagle


GXI-33

Now this is more like it!

GXI-33

"HEE...HEE....HEE"


That was it for this hole. After that we moved next door to another Greek Revival house that was part of the rail road district serving as an 1860's tavern, boy where we excited.

Greek

There where privies all over this yard. Old ones, new ones, empty ones, small ones, girl ones, boy ones, you name it. I ran out of picture space on the camera so couldn't take a lot of photos here. That was O.K. because there weren't really lots of bottles here, mostly broken beer mugs and tons of broken tavern smoking pipes!


TAVERN


Pontiled

Quite a few broken pontiled bottles came out, this one was whole, an Osgood's India Cholagogue, your guess is as good as mine.


Mich.

This is a real cool Dr. Shulte's Magnetic Oil from Jackson, Mich. Neat eh!

MICH MED

Pontiled

The summer has been good to us, we would like to thank all of the great homeowners out there for helping us bring back the past for us and themselves. OH YEA, ALMOST FORGOT THE 2 DETROIT BABY BOTTLES ON THE RIGHT!!! Scott