arob
Jr. Member
Hey Treasure Hunters. I like to keep an eye big excavation sites in my hometown and when I know they are digging history I always pop around and make a real nuisance of myself, waving hundred dollar bills in the air...
http://dumpdiggers.blogspot.com/2011/08/bottles-found-under-southcore-financial.html"]Antique Glass Bottles Found Under Southcore Financial Centre & Delta Hotel Toronto, The Story of Rees' Wharf[/URL]
The article details the life and times of Dr William Rees in Toronto Ontario
But of course my true focus is on the antique glass bottles that were liberated from the ground by the professional excavators,
This tan Wm Robertson ginger beer found at new home almost immediately on the new lake shore on a floating Toronto bed and breakfast facility which is also a bottle and pottery museum of note with interesting display cases showcasing yesterday's relics.
In present condition, if all of the remaining bottles were sold as one lot on eBay tomorrow they would fetch a couple thousand dollars - combined value with the blue Pilgrims soda and Commercial Ink Co bottles being most notable attractions.
HOWEVER the one exception is this crusty beer bottle,
this piece is key to the history of Hornby Ontario and there's a story here - its a puzzle how a Hornby beer bottle ended up down here at the base of Toronto, or perhaps testament to the quality and distribution of Brayn Bros Brewery in the early 1870s.
http://dumpdiggers.blogspot.com/2011/08/bottles-found-under-southcore-financial.html"]Antique Glass Bottles Found Under Southcore Financial Centre & Delta Hotel Toronto, The Story of Rees' Wharf[/URL]
The article details the life and times of Dr William Rees in Toronto Ontario
But of course my true focus is on the antique glass bottles that were liberated from the ground by the professional excavators,
This tan Wm Robertson ginger beer found at new home almost immediately on the new lake shore on a floating Toronto bed and breakfast facility which is also a bottle and pottery museum of note with interesting display cases showcasing yesterday's relics.
In present condition, if all of the remaining bottles were sold as one lot on eBay tomorrow they would fetch a couple thousand dollars - combined value with the blue Pilgrims soda and Commercial Ink Co bottles being most notable attractions.
HOWEVER the one exception is this crusty beer bottle,
this piece is key to the history of Hornby Ontario and there's a story here - its a puzzle how a Hornby beer bottle ended up down here at the base of Toronto, or perhaps testament to the quality and distribution of Brayn Bros Brewery in the early 1870s.
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