Just for fun. This is really old transfer ware we dug up!

[greenacres]

It's ashame the ear is broken. We were building Manyunk and when we put the pilings in, we hit a land fill from the late 1700's to the early 1900's. All the dates verify that, and I had a bottle expert look at them. They would just pop up from the ground. Some were broken, but i took a glass vase and filled it.

[greenacres]

I just watched freeman auctions and the splatter ware was amazing!

[talesofthesevenseas]

How COOL!!!!!!! I would love to see more photos of what you found in the old site!

[greenacres]

Sure I'll take some photos!

[greenacres]

These are only a few. Brown's Stout Ale are the squat bottles The one with the seal is the oldest. It's olive oil. There's an Honest Measure flask in the back, Baker's is the amber.The three below are pepper sauces. There's a mini whiskey bottle I think came out sideways. I researched it and it's extremely rare but unforunately it has a chip. The green bottle is perfume. The next is a medicine. I have ales, blob tops, hutchinsons etc. He would bring out home spackle buckets full.

[talesofthesevenseas]

Wow those are really neat! Love the cobalt blue one, my kitchen is done in cobalt blue, I love the old antique glass pieces in that color.

[greenacres]

Most of them have not been tumbled. There are other finds in this picture, but you'll know.

[greenacres]

I've done alot of research on them. The colors are more valuable. The seals are the oldest. They are very heavy. That's why they survived. Some have a sense of humor in the embossing.

[regularjoe2]

Nice little bunch o' them , greenacres .

[greenacres]

Thanks. I'm a neat hoarder.lol

[syl]

That's pretty neat stuff but what is a manyunk?

[greenacres]

Manyunk is up the River from Philadelphia. It's about 15, 20 min. from the main city. Back during the late 1700's all the breweries were there. I read that Black Beard the Pirate even partied there. There's alot of history there. Around 1794 George Washington lived in Philadelphia, and started taxing alcohol. He had alot of people investigated who lived there. When I investigated some people on the bottles, I found this out, but most were in the Muster Rolls.

[syl]

I really like this stuff about finding old things in the ground. About 20-25 years ago when I was working in San Francisco we were doing some trenching in the Market St. area and we started finding lots of things, mostly broken. After the 1906 earthquake much of the rubble was pushed into the bay and low areas. Some friends of mine had big collections of things they had found, mostly bottles. One thing I found was this silver device. I don't know what it was but a doctor friend of mine said it could be some kind of medical device or scientific instrument. But it's amazing to me that it came out of the ground after maybe 80 years looking like it does right now. It hasn't been cleaned other than to just wipe it off. It must be almost pure silver. Or some kind of silverplate.

[greenacres]

Scary looking object. It looks so pristine. I had a hard time cleaning. I was ready to buy a tumbler, but they're very expensive. You should see the gadgets I came up with. Each type of glass may have been made with different metals. They shine better with oily substances, but yours is in very go condition.

[KC]

Looks more industrial to me - like some kind of punch!