Back with relix

[Kentucky point]

I'm back Officially now, lol!

I was in Pennsylvania for a month, and than when I got back I immediately started working at a friends place, and in the process, made friends with a girl who really needs some encouragement. So no, I didn't forget about y'all, I've just been busy with life. But I did manage to score big in Pennsylvania!





This is a small gully behind my grandmas house. There used to be a house nearby that was built in the 1890s, and was knocked down in the 1930s. I noticed a lot of trash in the gully that looked old, so I started digging...



Base of a Heinz Ketchup bottle that dates to around the end of WWI.




Late 1910s, early 1920s California Fig Syrup medicine.





Top of a large medicine bottle see's light for the first time in over 100 years.





1920s "Packer" bottle. This could have contained any kind of liquid, but was probably a medicine bottle.





I may have cried about this one. A previously unknown variant of a druggist bottle from Washinton Pa. The back was shattered, the top was gone. I didn't bring it home with me, but it's up at my grandmas house if I ever decided to display it somehow.

[Kentucky point]

I dug up hundreds of bottles up there, mostly small clear medicine bottles. I packed these up in boxes but kept the best out for display.




It is a miracle these are intact and without chips. I found dozenz and dozens of broken mason jars and hundreds of the milk glass inserts for the lids. These were the only complete jars. All date to around 1900-1920. The ROOT jar is my favorite, and the rarest of the group. ROOT glass is notorious for being of poor quality, so for it to have survived underground this long is unbelievable.






Believe it or not, I found many insulators there. All were broken except for these two. One of the broken insulators was a very rare deep 7-UP green colored beehive insulator. That would have been worth some money if it was whole.






This is actually a poison bottle! It contained Tincture of Iodine, an anti-bacterial liquid. If taken internally, it would have been deadly, so on the original label, the word POISON was printed in bold red ink along with a skull and crossbones.







The picture doesn't do it justice.

[Kentucky point]

Dr. Bumsteads Worm Syrup. Yummy.





An interesting variation to the usually dull milk glass lids.







Probably my favorite bottle, a really colorful Laxative bottle from New York.






Creepy dolls. I swear one of them is possesed...





A really neat medicine bottle from the early 1900s. This was for horses (or people) that got cut on sharp objects.







This druggist bottle contained Laudanum.






No sodas were found, but apparently they liked beer. Some of these bottles are from Milwaukee, and Cumberland. I have no idea how they ended up in PA.

[Mailman]

Awesome finds. I wish I could find a pit like that.

[Kentucky point]

Now this was a surprise. It was found in the dump along with the bottles. It's a Chinese cash coin from the 1730s!






All of these spoons were silver plated, and were made by Rogers Bros. They date to the late 1890s, to early 1900s.

[UpNorth]

Jackpot!… cool everyone of them…👍

[smbore]

excellent finds.

[flintguy]

Impressive haul.

[Narrow Way Knapper]

A look back in time. Hey, could you whip me up some of that Dr. Bumsteads worm syrup? LOL!

[Narrow Way Knapper]

I'd love to find an old bottle a build a model ship for it.

[SurfaceHunter]

That dark blue bottle is a killer both of them. Looks like you had fun. How long did it take to wash all of those

[Kentucky point]

I would find about 30 a day, so I did them as I found them. It took a very long time to dig some of them out. For example, the 1858 Mason jar and the tall blue bottle were both embedded in the "rust" layer, an impenetrable conglomeration of rusted metal and hard packed soil. You literally have to chip it away. It took me hours to get the Laxol bottle out.

[willjo]

Looks like it was an exciting time with some wonderful bottles

[sailorjoe]

Congratulations Ethan for all those super finds. Great photos and text!!!

[Hal Gorges]

Some sweet lookin bottles, good for you.

[gregszybala]

Glad you are back and very nice on the finds!