NJKLAGT
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- Oct 18, 2014
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- All Treasure Hunting
Hey Y'all,
'Went and tried out a dump that I found a few years ago when I had just started out digging but didn't originally give a chance. As you can see, it's full of junk: lots of eavestroughs and bed mattress springs and pipes and, ugh, not very attractive - I quickly remembered why I passed it up the first time! This pic was actually taken after I had already moved a bunch of stuff aside. There was a lot of glass on the surface but most of it was 40s and 50s stuff, but there were some milk bottle tops and one or two older fruit jar bases and so I thought I'd give 'er a try. I was twisting the shovel like an auger to get through all the glass and wire bits and eventually got to a quieter clay layer. I found two of these small blown (about as late as blown gets) Wyeth bottles, and a tiny old spoon. Then things went quiet and so I starting putting test holes in everywhere along the length of the dump, only to find a bunch of late stuff and some more metal.
I returned to my original hole because if that was the only place I found something older, I might have a better chance there. Well, that logic worked for once, for I soon hit the base of a BLOWN FOREST GREEN CASE GIN OR PICKLE OR SOMETHING, OH MY GOODNESS!!! Haha, this thing had thick mould seams and a nice crude base and a bunch of swirls and bubbles and I was positive that it was something earth-shattering, but it was just an old English machine-made Walker's whiskey. FOOLED. But you know what? It's actually pretty nice, still around a hundred years old, and so I took it home. Then after a little more digging I ran into this old beer or soda base with "1917" embossed on the bottom. 'Turned out to be a C. Berry & Co. from Boston. Not bad, I'll take it!
So that was my little struggle with a tough little dump. I think it might still hold some secrets. I think there could be one or two beauties in there. I'll go back again someday.
Good luck and happy hunting,
NJ
'Went and tried out a dump that I found a few years ago when I had just started out digging but didn't originally give a chance. As you can see, it's full of junk: lots of eavestroughs and bed mattress springs and pipes and, ugh, not very attractive - I quickly remembered why I passed it up the first time! This pic was actually taken after I had already moved a bunch of stuff aside. There was a lot of glass on the surface but most of it was 40s and 50s stuff, but there were some milk bottle tops and one or two older fruit jar bases and so I thought I'd give 'er a try. I was twisting the shovel like an auger to get through all the glass and wire bits and eventually got to a quieter clay layer. I found two of these small blown (about as late as blown gets) Wyeth bottles, and a tiny old spoon. Then things went quiet and so I starting putting test holes in everywhere along the length of the dump, only to find a bunch of late stuff and some more metal.
I returned to my original hole because if that was the only place I found something older, I might have a better chance there. Well, that logic worked for once, for I soon hit the base of a BLOWN FOREST GREEN CASE GIN OR PICKLE OR SOMETHING, OH MY GOODNESS!!! Haha, this thing had thick mould seams and a nice crude base and a bunch of swirls and bubbles and I was positive that it was something earth-shattering, but it was just an old English machine-made Walker's whiskey. FOOLED. But you know what? It's actually pretty nice, still around a hundred years old, and so I took it home. Then after a little more digging I ran into this old beer or soda base with "1917" embossed on the bottom. 'Turned out to be a C. Berry & Co. from Boston. Not bad, I'll take it!
So that was my little struggle with a tough little dump. I think it might still hold some secrets. I think there could be one or two beauties in there. I'll go back again someday.
Good luck and happy hunting,
NJ
