I am one happy guy today.
My quest to find out what the Cooper Bros Company in Chestertown, MD was started a year or two ago when I pulled up this barnacled beauty from the depths of a local river called Still Pond Creek:
I know it's hard to see from the picture, but this an embossed soda...
Since it's finally getting warm out, I've been out several times this month. Most of my finds were art deco and medicine bottles. I also found a lot of tiny art deco perfume bottles. I found some local sodas and a few embossed medicines. (Nospri, Pineoleum, California Fig Syrup) and other common...
I bought this bracelet in a lot purchase at an estate sale. It is marked inside the back clasp 585 which i know stands for 14k and means european or german. It also has AMU which I think means it was tested and confirmed to be 14k or .585 percent gold. Not certain if that means it was tested to...
I don't even have a clue as to how to reference this item. I dug it up today at a farmhouse from the 1920's. It is approximately 6 inches long and about 2.5 inches wide at the top. It looks a little Art Deco in design. It is hollow and looks like it once held something in the top (a mirror?)...