Hello friends, it's been a while since I did a big ol' update like this one, but I have a feeling you'll enjoy what I found as much as I did. I'll save the announcement for later. No one died, and I'm not getting married, so there's your hints for now.
This past August, I made the trip up to Schuylkill county Pennsylvania to visit family, and search for relics. I Found a bottle dump on my first day up there that tops any I've ever dug just for size. There are two sections of it, with the smaller section being the oldest. My grandfather dug out the oldest section many years ago, finding many nice bottles. He left me a bunch of spoons and a pipe bowl for my troubles.
The small spoon on top, and the large spoon on the bottom, date to the 1850s - 1860s. The others come from the 1910s or 1920s. All had silver plating on them at some point, but not a lot remains now.
The pipe bowl dates to the 1880s through the 1900s. It has a very crisp harp and floral design on the bowl. 'Tis very nice I gotta say, and it's a nice first.
The bottles that I found were mostly 1950s milk bottles and food jars. The vast majority of the milk bottles had Applied Color Labels on them that wore away over time in the dump. I kept them all, readable or not. I found several local sodas, mostly Peppers Ginger Ale from Ashland Pennsylvania, a very small mining town located within walking distance of my grandmas house, and some Mount Carmel bottles like Kramer Bros, and Krystal Bottling Co. Above you can see the ones I brought back to my house. The rest are in Pennsylvania at my grandmothers house.
These two pharmacy bottles are the stars of the show. These are the only two known in existence from this pharmacy. Like I said before, Ashland is a very small town in a rural county, so these bottles are a great find. Knapps opened in 1911, and closed down in 1964. These bottles date to about 1911-1915.
The only other rarity in the dump was a broken Ashland Brewing Company bottle, a scarce bottle from a brewery that was only open for one year.
This was also in the dump oddly enough. Arthur was a Quartermaster Sgt. in the Panama Canal, one of the most heavily guarded places in the entire world during WWII.
Yours truly.
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This past August, I made the trip up to Schuylkill county Pennsylvania to visit family, and search for relics. I Found a bottle dump on my first day up there that tops any I've ever dug just for size. There are two sections of it, with the smaller section being the oldest. My grandfather dug out the oldest section many years ago, finding many nice bottles. He left me a bunch of spoons and a pipe bowl for my troubles.
The small spoon on top, and the large spoon on the bottom, date to the 1850s - 1860s. The others come from the 1910s or 1920s. All had silver plating on them at some point, but not a lot remains now.
The pipe bowl dates to the 1880s through the 1900s. It has a very crisp harp and floral design on the bowl. 'Tis very nice I gotta say, and it's a nice first.
The bottles that I found were mostly 1950s milk bottles and food jars. The vast majority of the milk bottles had Applied Color Labels on them that wore away over time in the dump. I kept them all, readable or not. I found several local sodas, mostly Peppers Ginger Ale from Ashland Pennsylvania, a very small mining town located within walking distance of my grandmas house, and some Mount Carmel bottles like Kramer Bros, and Krystal Bottling Co. Above you can see the ones I brought back to my house. The rest are in Pennsylvania at my grandmothers house.
These two pharmacy bottles are the stars of the show. These are the only two known in existence from this pharmacy. Like I said before, Ashland is a very small town in a rural county, so these bottles are a great find. Knapps opened in 1911, and closed down in 1964. These bottles date to about 1911-1915.
The only other rarity in the dump was a broken Ashland Brewing Company bottle, a scarce bottle from a brewery that was only open for one year.
This was also in the dump oddly enough. Arthur was a Quartermaster Sgt. in the Panama Canal, one of the most heavily guarded places in the entire world during WWII.
Yours truly.
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