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I believe it was all there but badly cracked. There was iridescence on the break exhonerating me from guilt but still could have taken more caution extracting. Cracked or not, it would have been a beauty. Thanks for watching and your support!

@@Hamingja6266 Thanks for watching and good question. The main reference book by Zumwalt has zero info but a quick internet search produced the info it was around by 1890 and produced in Chicago by Tildesley & Co. There are quantities of both machined and hand blown indicating they were popular here in the midwest into the early 1920s as this example shows.

As for future videos, I've kinda run my course. This is my 60th year digging and I've promised myself to trade in my shovels for a fishing pole. I suspect I'll be bored in no time and might have to try my hand at metal detecting. We'll see. Thanks again for your kind support.

@@WellAlrightyThen awww, well good luck, good fishing you deserve it after 60 yrs. Thank you for your videos! 👍😊🙂

@@bouncerslabrealnature9143 I take that as a great compliment, even though I'm 34 days older! Ha!

I must admit it was purely unintentional! I'm probably the worst at self promotion. That said, I do have a potentially exciting dig coming up next week. A pre civil war residence of JB Henderson, senator and coauthor of 13th amendment. Lots of history. Found a spot where "somethings going on." I'm gonna find out what...

That would be too cool! You guys are at the top of my list for keeping it real real! Thanks for watching and your support!

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Figured it was a mustard. I've seen complete ones at bottle shows with the roof lids. I discovered they were the early Westmorland Specialty co product. Ones with surviving base labels give instructions how to break out a glass tab in the lid's chimney to turn it into a coin bank. Pretty cool! Wish I had found the lid although complete ones don't sell for much. Must be fairly common though I never dug one up before. Thanks for watching!

@@WellAlrightyThen I have a log cabin like that one and am trying to get the schoolhouse.

Yep, still slinging dirt for however longer I have. It kicks my ass worse than ever these days, but at 72 I can brag I'm still trying! Thanks for your patience and watching. I believe I have one more epic killer dig sometime soon! (I hope!)

Yeah, been slingin' dirt, just not finding much. This dig was borderline worthy of posting, even with an unlisted local soda. I'll continue to post as they progress but I need some better hunting ground. A guy that looks just like me has beat me to all the good spots! Ha! Have a few permissions with good potential and a few without permission. (I'm getting desperate!)

@@WellAlrightyThen I like that you keep it real. No glorifying common bottles to try to make it more exciting. We try to do the same! Show the good, the bad, the ugly. Digging isn't all bitters and pontils LOL

Absolutely! I'm guessing the old Bayse home? It's the oldest I can think of from that era. Message me at cannibalfromhannibal@gmail.com

Johnny's book is Missouri Bottles, Crock Jugs And Dose Glasses. I suspect they are oop as he passed away couple years ago. However, there is a guy on ebay currently selling brand new copies for $40. Thanks for watching and hope this helps...

Hangin' in there for an old fart!

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Thank YOU for watching! That amber guy looks turn of century, late 90's likely. Never seen one before or since. Not a stitch of embossing but if I had to guess I would suspect a tonic of sorts. Too large for a hair product and too odd shaped for a medicine. That's my guess...

Hey there, thanks for watchin'. That jug find would certainly get my attention! I'd start with a potato rake and scrape the surface to see if there is a shallow dump or dig a test hole a foot or two near where the jug was to see if anything is deeper. I tend to be a hoarder with what I dig and a couple years ago I sold off all my duplicates and excess so now I only keep what I want for my collection and the rest either go to the property owners or back in the hole.

Glad you enjoyed the video.

I just recently realized this was my first undamaged EMBOSSED pontiled bottle from my little town. It's mighty stingy my way! Have a few pre-civil war properties up in Hannibal waiting for me to sling dirt. The digging tends to be more productive up there...

@@WellAlrightyThen If you need some help slinging dirt in Hannibal, just let me know. 😁

A drink of ink? Might help me think! The pen IS mightier than the shovel! Unless you run out of ink! Then all ya got is a dart!

Thank you so much!

Thanks for your support! Yeah, I'm always excited with the possibilities a pontil era pit offers, even though they are universally skimpy on the glass in my area.

@@WellAlrightyThen ....on the RIGHT coast here(mid-atlantic area), i have dug pontilled pits for over 30 years and i can still go to many areas where there are 1880 pits to dig with impunity and great regularity.... not the greatest areas but i have never had any issues even though my skin B the wrong colla lolol

You do have a soothing voice, btw. Love the ink and the marble!!

Thanks for watching and I hear ya! One reason I prefer extracting with a screwdriver is less chance of damaging the bottle. Reason why I gave up on the three prong garden tool as it is too easy to hook a neck or lip with one of the prongs. Also they create scratches in the glass that can be removed but takes some work. The probe thing is sometimes unavoidable when locating the privy hole, but once you find it, it is a wise thing to not continue probing or over-probing the hole. Something I forget myself on occasion and this was one of those times. When I probe to find the bottom, I have to remind myself this is the gold zone where the oldest of glass resides and best to avoid probing at all. Easy to say, hard to follow! One tool I have yet to try is a sharpened pvc plastic pipe. Looks like it works well, for the most part.

Being most pits in these parts were heavily dipped or cleaned out every 20 years or so, this one was no exception. The lime that was still in the use layer looked disturbed and not layered as usually found. In fact I feared another digger 50 years ago may have beaten me to the dig, but due to the compaction of the clay, it would have had to be that long ago to not be easy digging. That said, it is tough to say what time the pit was capped and unused, but I can say that which remained on the bottom came from the early construction of the house in 1858 due to the pontiled bases. I can also state with confidence the glass I dug was primarily from the early to late1860's based on the use of keyed hinge molds and drippy applied tops. It appears to come to an abrupt end at the earliest of the 1870's, again likely from being cleaned out likely more than once. Generally, dippers did not go deeper than the lime layers that formed as the lime rendered recycling any of the fecal matter for fertilizer unusable. This was a common way for dippers to make extra money. All that said, this pit definitely fits a time period of late 1850's to possibly 1890's, allowing for two 20 year cleanouts, leaving little behind in a semi-jumbled state. I was fortunate there was anything left as thorough as they were. Thanks for watching...

Very cool! Thank you for your support...

No, thank YOU for the extremely generous accolades and shout-out! So glad you enjoy the videos and especially my stories. Every time I see one in print I have to pinch myself to be sure it's real! It's like Christmas morning when I was a kid, all giddy with excitement. Thanks again!

Thanks! I can count on one hand with a finger or thumb left over the number of hutches I dug while living out west. Some areas are just tougher to find them! Partly (mostly?) why I retired to the mid-west! Better glass digging opportunities.

Where we all eventually return, wit da woims!

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That's what I thought, at least for the first dozen! After that, #50 was pretty Ho-Hum! Still, if ya gotta have a record, this was a pretty cool bottle to do it with! Just wish I found more diversity in size or style.

I hear ya loud and clear and not looking forward to rocking my chair at the old folks home! That said, I just posted my first privy dig of the year, a late 1850's stone liner with the typical meager finds but last one out of the hole was a pontiled embossed ink that saved the dig from obscurity. That also said, I have a brand new probe I intend to wear down to a nub this season, so hopefully many more videos to come! Thanks for watching!

Thank you very much!

It's in reference to the last book by Johnnie Fletcher, Oklahoma digger extraordinaire who sadly passed away 2 years ago. Titled, Missouri Bottles, Crock Jugs, & Dose Glasses (2018) He also wrote several other books beginning with his home state Oklahoma, then Kansas and Arkansas. They are the gold standard for many of the midwest bottles found. I suspect all are out of print as he did this for love of the game, not the $. Rare is the bottle show where one of his books can't be found.

YUP, you are spot on...

Hey there, thanks for watching my video. Typically, those are generically referred to as "preserve ware" or more commonly, food bottles, meaning they could have held anything from pickles to catsup, though more likely as you said pickles or olives or something more of a solid nature as mustard or catsup could get messy or difficult in removing. Ones that have a rounded backside are considered a salad dressing. I've not seen a surviving labeled one yet but I'm sure there's one somewhere as they are very common. Still, the shape is what gives them collectability status.