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mart

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Re: Help With Medicine Bottles
« Reply #15 on: June 12, 2013, 05:24:00 pm »
Bromo Seltzer was for upset stomach and heartburn !! Like Alka Seltzer,, the fizzy tablets !!
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« Reply #16 on: June 12, 2013, 06:54:12 pm »
Nice collection of little bottles greenacres. Can't wait to get a few more.
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« Reply #17 on: June 12, 2013, 06:54:44 pm »
Thanks Mart I was wondering what it was  :P
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Re: Help With Medicine Bottles
« Reply #18 on: June 12, 2013, 07:02:36 pm »
Are you digging or buying?
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« Reply #19 on: June 12, 2013, 08:43:09 pm »
I'm buying - haven't dug any bottles up since I was a young kid! and I didn't know what they were back then.. when I would go to my grandparents cottage with them I would go to abandon houses and dig them up along the tree lines. Used to find lots of old liquor bottles!
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« Reply #20 on: June 12, 2013, 08:49:52 pm »
The problem with digging is you may need a tumbler. I'm one day to have access to a privy. I always get close and then plans are changed at the last minute. We have a small construction company that rehabs old buildings and houses.
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Re: Help With Medicine Bottles
« Reply #21 on: June 12, 2013, 08:59:50 pm »
http://www.bottlebooks.com/

You should like this site !!  Go to bottom of the home page, pick a year and start reading the questions people have asked over the years !! I collected bottles for years and if I get started reading,, I will sit here for days !!
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« Reply #22 on: June 12, 2013, 09:09:47 pm »
What's a privy? I like exploring old abandon houses and stuff but I've never really found anything, usually just empty buildings.

And thank you very much for that website Mart! I'm sure I will be spending a lot of time on there too!
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« Reply #23 on: June 12, 2013, 09:14:01 pm »
Privy = outside toilet,, outhouse,,little brown shack out back,,ect ect !!!  Bottles were frequently thrown down holes !!
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« Reply #24 on: June 12, 2013, 09:44:42 pm »
Ain't it the truth .... great spot for corncob collectors too !
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« Reply #25 on: June 12, 2013, 09:57:26 pm »
I had my antique shop in an old ten (yes 10) bedroom house that had originally served as a rooming house since the 1890's.
Some years ago, a friend and well known privy digger dug 5 or 6 sites in the backyard. Amazing amount of early stuff came up. The only thing I kept was a glass kerosene finger lamp that had survived the years without getting broken or chipped. I always could picture someone going out at night with their lamp...and setting it down. Whoops, where's my lamp? ;D
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« Reply #26 on: June 12, 2013, 11:01:07 pm »
 ;D Treasure hunting. Can we see the lamp?
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« Reply #27 on: June 13, 2013, 05:20:40 am »
Quote from: fancypants on June 12, 2013, 09:44:42 pm
Ain't it the truth .... great spot for corncob collectors too !

Gross......... :P
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« Reply #28 on: June 13, 2013, 09:51:35 am »
Yes interesting how that works with corn. ;D ;D
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« Reply #29 on: June 14, 2013, 01:10:16 pm »
Anybody know what the little bottle with the really small hole at the top is?
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