NGE
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- May 27, 2008
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- Etrac, Explorer XS II, Fisher 1266-X
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Back in '89 I found this bottle with my metal detector. 
I found it in the woods at a Famous Detroit landmark park called Belle Isle. I was hunting around an old decomposed tree that had fallen many, many years prior, Then I got this really weak signal, and proceeded to dig, at about 9 inches I saw this bottle standing straight up in the hole, but I figured, How can my detector sound off on glass 
. As I started to empty the watery mud out of it, I heard a rattle coming from within. What I found inside was a metal piece, I didn't know what it was at the time, so I carefully walked the pretty blue bottle back to my truck, and wrapped it in some newspapers. When I got home, I went to the library and looked it up in Kovel's Bottle book. I found out that the metal piece was called a " Hutchinson's stopper " it was a hairpin design that had a lead disc attached on the inside with a rubber seal around it, and that, with the carbonation held it up in the neck. Next I looked up The " Central Bottling Works ", they had used this same design of bottle since 1832 to about 1920, and that because of the stopper in it, it was dated to 1876, when the Hutchinson stopper was invented 
. At the time I had looked up the bottle in Kovel's it had a value of 175.00 . The bottle in cobalt blue is very desireable among collectors, it was blown into a wooden mold, and has an applied lip, and the best part of it all, there are no chips, cracks, or discoloration to it at all. I read in a bottle book that many collectors enhanced the embossing on their bottles for photographic purposes, so I did likewise. The bottle is 7 1/8th. inches tall and is very thick, the bottom is marked J.J.G........NGE
I found it in the woods at a Famous Detroit landmark park called Belle Isle. I was hunting around an old decomposed tree that had fallen many, many years prior, Then I got this really weak signal, and proceeded to dig, at about 9 inches I saw this bottle standing straight up in the hole, but I figured, How can my detector sound off on glass . As I started to empty the watery mud out of it, I heard a rattle coming from within. What I found inside was a metal piece, I didn't know what it was at the time, so I carefully walked the pretty blue bottle back to my truck, and wrapped it in some newspapers. When I got home, I went to the library and looked it up in Kovel's Bottle book. I found out that the metal piece was called a " Hutchinson's stopper " it was a hairpin design that had a lead disc attached on the inside with a rubber seal around it, and that, with the carbonation held it up in the neck. Next I looked up The " Central Bottling Works ", they had used this same design of bottle since 1832 to about 1920, and that because of the stopper in it, it was dated to 1876, when the Hutchinson stopper was invented . At the time I had looked up the bottle in Kovel's it had a value of 175.00 . The bottle in cobalt blue is very desireable among collectors, it was blown into a wooden mold, and has an applied lip, and the best part of it all, there are no chips, cracks, or discoloration to it at all. I read in a bottle book that many collectors enhanced the embossing on their bottles for photographic purposes, so I did likewise. The bottle is 7 1/8th. inches tall and is very thick, the bottom is marked J.J.G........NGE
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