Todays Bottle Dump Finds

[Mr Ripley]

Today's Bottle Dump Finds

Hi all.

Temperature was very warm today for 12-14 in Western PA, so I had to go out and dig stuff up. My pair of Aces, the vibra probe and digger were cleaned and stored away so I grabbed my garden cultivator and went to the 40s bottle dump where I always seem to find something odd. I collect TOC medicine bottles, but I never find any of these in this particular dump but it is still fun because of the random finds. Any bottle I find interesting is typically photographed, cached, researched and picked up later if it is worth keeping. Beats bringing them all home and sending them back to a different dump.

Today scored me no less than three battleships, one glass, one plastic and one metal. Figure the odds. I also found four makeup compacts from the 40s. That brings my total to eight this year. A few silver plate flatware pieces (one maybe a baby spoon), marbles (two glass, one clay), a bisque dog (broken) a Williams Korn-X bottle and a small milk glass urn looking perfume bottle. Also found a green glass disc that says HUSH. I must have been complaining.

Last but not least I found what I assume is a local milk bottle, but I have never run into this particular dairy before. Time to get out the reference books I guess.

Nothing spectacular, but I did not expect another digging day this year so everything was a bonus. Thanks for letting me share.

 

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[halfdime]

Re: Today's Bottle Dump Finds

Nice finds! Is that an Avon Dairy bottle? What's with the battleships; are they lead, and do they have a toymaker's name on the bottom?

 

[Mr Ripley]

Re: Today's Bottle Dump Finds

Hi halfdime,

Yes, that is an Avon Dairy bottle. Are you familiar with the dairy? I thought I had seen them all from my neck of the woods, but this one is a mystery to me. Perhaps from your neck of the woods...

The battleship thing struck me as very odd too. The metal one is hollow with no markings. I think it may have had wheels, it had the brackets on the botton for an axle like the old metal tootsietoys. The plastic was just a top of the toy and the glass one had the end snapped off. I find broken glass toys like these quite often there, I think they were made in Jeannette, PA.

 

[halfdime]

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Hi halfdime,

Yes, that is an Avon Dairy bottle. Are you familiar with the dairy? I thought I had seen them all from my neck of the woods, but this one is a mystery to me. Perhaps from your neck of the woods...

The battleship thing struck me as very odd too. The metal one is hollow with no markings. I think it may have had wheels, it had the brackets on the botton for an axle like the old metal tootsietoys. The plastic was just a top of the toy and the glass one had the end snapped off. I find broken glass toys like these quite often there, I think they were made in Jeannette, PA.

Ripley, never heard of that dairy; I just wasn't sure from the angle on the bottle. After I posed the question, I noticed at the bottom of your picture you identified it as Avon. I'm sure somebody can tell us about it!

 

[olepossum]

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the glass one had candy in it and a piece of cardboard tapped over it i have a lot of these my friends dad had about a dozen and my father inlaw has one that is what they both told me they have cars trucks bears boats tanks and submarines pretty cool i have a bottle dump not many old bottles i have founs a few embossed one with screw topps they come home the rest stay at the dump in a pile this srping i will go up and rebury them and mark the hole with a sign that says junk bottles for now wait about 20 years and come back and dig them up.

 

[GopherDaGold]

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Love the vaseline glass paperweight!! Perhaps it was used in a library?

 

[seger98]

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Neat finds, it's amazing what's down those holes!

 

[Sofaman36]

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Nice finds! HH

 

[vayank54]

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the glass one had candy in it and a piece of cardboard tapped over it i have a lot of these my friends dad had about a dozen and my father inlaw has one that is what they both told me they have cars trucks bears boats tanks and submarines pretty cool i have a bottle dump not many old bottles i have founs a few embossed one with screw topps they come home the rest stay at the dump in a pile this srping i will go up and rebury them and mark the hole with a sign that says junk bottles for now wait about 20 years and come back and dig them up.

Some really cool stuff.
Ole possum is right about the candy containers. I've dug quite a few but only one, a lantern, was whole.

 

[Mr Ripley]

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Thank you all for the nice comments.

Olepossum and Vayank 54: I have dug these glass containers in the form of cars, train locomotives, a tank and a Scottie dog. Most were chipped or broken, which is probably thepoint where Mom sent them off to the dump. Funny that you should mention the lantern candy holder because I dug one of those yesterday also. I toss them aside because I can never find the lid and handle in tact.

GopherDaGold: I find that piece to be interesting also. If you were holding it in your hand it is more akin to a canning jar liner than a paperweight. I am thinking that maybe a similar piece would slide over it like a snuff can, perhaps Hush was some sort of makeup product.

Plehbah: The coinage eludes me, but I truly enjoy the random quality of the finds. More than once I have considered ransacking all of my drawers and boxes and getting together a composit photo. Everything from a brass carbide miner's hat lamp to a long string of pea sized copper bells. It's been fun.

Thanks again all

 

[romeo-1]

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Very cool...I gotta find a bottle dump!

 

[GopherDaGold]

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Interesting tidbit about vaseline glass: In the 19th century it was manufactured using uranium and IS radio-active! Got a geiger counter? You will get a reaction but the uranium levels are low enough to not cause harm. It will also glow under ultra-violet light.
I'm not sure if vaseline glass makers ever manufactured it for strictly utilitarian purposes such as the canning jar theory you mentioned. I've never seen decorative canning jars but of course that doesn't mean they don't exist.
I think this is a job for the 'whatsit' forum if you would like to find out what it is. I know I would!

 

[DCMatt]

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It hard to see, but your glass HUSH disk may be a boil minder - a glass disk put in the bottom of a pan to keep the liquid from boiling over. I have one in my kitchen (mine does NOT say HUSH). I use it when I'm brewing. It works!

DCMatt

 

[Mr Ripley]

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Hi folks!

GoforDaGold, I do not think that the disc is vaseline glass. I have found many chunks of vaseline glass in this same dump but this disc lacks the "opaque iridescent" effect for lack of a better term.

When the disc is laid on a table with the embossed side down the inside is concave and smooth with no inner angles. For some reason this reminds me of some milk glass cold cream jars I have seen in the past, the inside shape making it easier to drag your fingers through and not get the cream stuck in the corners in the bottom of the jar. I envision a cup shaped (perhaps even metal) lid sliding down over it to as as a cap...

Matt, I am unfamiliar with those discs but the concept behind them makes perfect sense. Interesting.

Thank you both for your insight

Maybe I will toss it up on the whatzit board. It sure does work well for keeping those marbles from rollin around though!

 

[allen]

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i guess your ready to do some serious battling now !!!

 

[Mr Ripley]

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i guess your ready to do some serious battling now !!!

I would choose air supremacy over sea, but I will play the hand I am dealt...

 

[GopherDaGold]

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When the disc is laid on a table with the embossed side down the inside is concave and smooth with no inner angles. For some reason this reminds me of some milk glass cold cream jars I have seen in the past, the inside shape making it easier to drag your fingers through and not get the cream stuck in the corners in the bottom of the jar. I envision a cup shaped (perhaps even metal) lid sliding down over it to as as a cap...

You may be on to something. I did some research and found out that there was a Hush Liquid Deodorant available in the 30's-40's. Couldn't find anything definitive but that might be a good place to start.
I'm not disputing your claim that it may not be vaseline glass but there were European as well as American makers of the glass with subtle differences in the colors and manufacturing processes.
Try hitting it with a blacklight. If it glows there is uranium in the piece.

 

[DCMatt]

Re: Today's Bottle Dump Finds

When the disc is laid on a table with the embossed side down the inside is concave and smooth with no inner angles. For some reason this reminds me of some milk glass cold cream jars I have seen in the past, the inside shape making it easier to drag your fingers through and not get the cream stuck in the corners in the bottom of the jar. I envision a cup shaped (perhaps even metal) lid sliding down over it to as as a cap...

You may be on to something. I did some research and found out that there was a Hush Liquid Deodorant available in the 30's-40's. Couldn't find anything definitive but that might be a good place to start.
I'm not disputing your claim that it may not be vaseline glass but there were European as well as American makers of the glass with subtle differences in the colors and manufacturing processes.
Try hitting it with a blacklight. If it glows there is uranium in the piece.

Hush Cream Deodorant (distributed by Hush Sales Co., 114 Market, Philadelphia 6)

Not much info about them on the net.

DCMatt

 

[Brian(upstateNY-Central Fla.)]

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Thats some good finds there
I like bottles and glass myself

 

[Mr Ripley]

Re: Today's Bottle Dump Finds

When the disc is laid on a table with the embossed side down the inside is concave and smooth with no inner angles. For some reason this reminds me of some milk glass cold cream jars I have seen in the past, the inside shape making it easier to drag your fingers through and not get the cream stuck in the corners in the bottom of the jar. I envision a cup shaped (perhaps even metal) lid sliding down over it to as as a cap...

You may be on to something. I did some research and found out that there was a Hush Liquid Deodorant available in the 30's-40's. Couldn't find anything definitive but that might be a good place to start.
I'm not disputing your claim that it may not be vaseline glass but there were European as well as American makers of the glass with subtle differences in the colors and manufacturing processes.
Try hitting it with a blacklight. If it glows there is uranium in the piece.

No problem sir, disputes are a good thing! This is the way these types of questions get answered! I saw a cryptic google result concerning the liquid deodorant, but it did not say anything about the era of manufacture. The timeframe that you mention would make sense when compared with other finds in this dump. I will also most definitely try the blacklight test, I know just where I can find one. Thanks again for your effort, and have a Merry Christmas!!