110+ YO Beer Bottle Trifecta (May 2nd 2023)

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Went back to the 1910-capped clay pit bottle dump that I have been extensively excavating since January. It is very difficult digging but the trade off is the bottles often come out in great condition. In about two hours of digging I recovered three blob-top beer bottles, one tooled lip med, and one wooden tobacco pipe.

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Bottles from left to right:

1. "North Beach Height F Frankel Bottling Co." (Bottle made by the Boley Manufacturing Co.,1898-1911)

2. "Bachmann - Bechtel Brewing Co. S.I. N.Y." (1907-1911)

3. "Jacob Oertel 151 Flushing Ave. Astoria L.I."

4. "Burnett Boston" tooled lip med/extract bottle.

Here is the Bachmann - Bechtel immediately before and after excavation:
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Bachmann brewery workers (courtesy of www.taverntrove.com):
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On Tuesday April 5th 1910 young William Bachmann died at just 30 years old, and the company went out of business:
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North Beach Height F Frankel bottle during and after excavation:
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The Boley Manufacturing Co. base plate:
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Jacob Oertel bottle during and after excavation:
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That's all for now.
 

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All of them are really awesome condition.
Great trade off if they come out looking like that. Congratulations
 

Went back to the 1910-capped clay pit bottle dump that I have been extensively excavating since January. It is very difficult digging but the trade off is the bottles often come out in great condition. In about two hours of digging I recovered three blob-top beer bottles, one tooled lip med, and one wooden tobacco pipe.

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Bottles from left to right:

1. "North Beach Height F Frankel Bottling Co." (Bottle made by the Boley Manufacturing Co.,1898-1911)

2. "Bachmann - Bechtel Brewing Co. S.I. N.Y." (1907-1911)

3. "Jacob Oertel 151 Flushing Ave. Astoria L.I."

4. "Burnett Boston" tooled lip med/extract bottle.

Here is the Bachmann - Bechtel immediately before and after excavation:
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Bachmann brewery workers (courtesy of www.taverntrove.com):
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On Tuesday April 5th 1910 young William Bachmann died at just 30 years old, and the company went out of business:
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North Beach Height F Frankel bottle during and after excavation:
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The Boley Manufacturing Co. base plate:
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Jacob Oertel bottle during and after excavation:
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That's all for now.
Very Cool!!! Congrats!!! Nice Info and write up!!!
 

Thanks for the history lesson, and great saves on the bottles. I wish I knew more about old bottles, I have found a few "blob tops" in my neck of the woods too.
 

Absolutely lovely condition! How do you find a site like that?
Thanks! It isn't easy, it takes alot of research and field work. To find this particular location I went into the city archives and researched the many land reclamation projects conducted by the city in the late 19th and early 20th century. I then cross referenced these locations with modern maps until I found one that was both still in existance and was also publicly accessible. Then I actually went there and started probing the areas until I hit glass. Brought in shovels and got to digging, and there, low and behold, the year 1910 frozen in time under a layer of clay - exactly as the old city archive map said. And this isn't just bottles, it's everything and anything people tossed there 110 years ago. I even found a horse skull down there.
 

Went back to the 1910-capped clay pit bottle dump that I have been extensively excavating since January. It is very difficult digging but the trade off is the bottles often come out in great condition. In about two hours of digging I recovered three blob-top beer bottles, one tooled lip med, and one wooden tobacco pipe.

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Bottles from left to right:

1. "North Beach Height F Frankel Bottling Co." (Bottle made by the Boley Manufacturing Co.,1898-1911)

2. "Bachmann - Bechtel Brewing Co. S.I. N.Y." (1907-1911)

3. "Jacob Oertel 151 Flushing Ave. Astoria L.I."

4. "Burnett Boston" tooled lip med/extract bottle.

Here is the Bachmann - Bechtel immediately before and after excavation:
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Bachmann brewery workers (courtesy of www.taverntrove.com):
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On Tuesday April 5th 1910 young William Bachmann died at just 30 years old, and the company went out of business:
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North Beach Height F Frankel bottle during and after excavation:
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The Boley Manufacturing Co. base plate:
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Jacob Oertel bottle during and after excavation:
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That's all for now.
Great bottle finds.
 

Great finds and post as always UnderMiner. Nothing better than the way a dug bottle cleans up. The archives you speak of are they online or at a library?
 

Great finds and post as always UnderMiner. Nothing better than the way a dug bottle cleans up. The archives you speak of are they online or at a library?
Thank you! I use both physical and digital sources. The digital sources are accessible online through the New york City public library's website. They have a campaign to digitize all of their physical material, but they're a long way from completing this. Nothing beats looking at the real papers, if you can locate them that is.
 

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