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    Backyard bottle hunter

    Welcome to the forum! Accoring to this SHA page, Pepsi bottles used a different date code system from most other Owens-Illinois bottles. Yours is from 1951 in that case: https://sha.org/bottle/pdffiles/OwensIllinois2015.pdf
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    What does this say?!!!

    I'm pretty sure it says Theleme. This would be a reference to a fictional secular monastery in Francois Rabelais's 1534 novel Gargantua, where the monks and nuns live by only one rule - "Do what you want". The name has been used for quite a few different things over the years, but I think...
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    Need info

    Oh yeah that'll definitely be a lot harder to research things using the phone. In theory it shouldn't limit the results but it'll definitely make it a lot harder to read through the sort of websites where this sort of info is, few if any of them are optimized for mobile.
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    I need some help with this bottle.

    Wow, that looks like it could be a pretty rare one! It's not listed on sodasandbeers.com and I can't find any reference to the company or bottler either. Not often you come across an unlisted blob beer. And it's even got a backwards N! Hopefully some collectors local to you can offer their...
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    Galveston Dig

    I always like coming back to this thread to see what new you've been finding, there's a lot of great stuff there! It's interesting seeing how much UK stuff you've been finding, reminds me more of the sort of things that show up in Canadian dumps moreso than most of what I see posted on here.
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    Hot day nothing like cooling off with a Mountain Dew and a snow maid

    Where are you seeing value all over the place? I had a look on Ebay and based on the completed listings it doesn't look like anyone is paying much for them unfortunately.
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    Hot day nothing like cooling off with a Mountain Dew and a snow maid

    I've never seen a screw cap NDNR Mountain Dew before! I didn't know that the hillbilly branding overlapped with the screw top era at all (Throwback not included).
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    New but old here.

    That is so cool! I'm a bit surprised that no one has tried to salvage it yet, I'm sure a lot of people would love to have one of those. Though depending on the location I guess it would be nearly impossible to get it out of there. I remember reading a reference to "tanks" being sold as army...
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    Need info

    Likely a short-lived and obscure local product, it's not one I've heard of either. The only references to it I can find are from Louisville, but apparently the company was based out of St Louis according to this ad (which is pretty bizarre in its subject matter, looks like they paid for...
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    Looking for some info on a Jar found about 45 years ago.

    I'd guess that amount of rust would form over around 5-10 years of being outside, although now that I think about it the dry desert conditions might slow the process down somewhat. So maybe more like mid-50s-early 60s in that case. Just a guess though, I'm really not very familiar with deserts...
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    What is this

    These typically contained blacking (shoe polish) and were mostly, if not always, British.
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    Beautiful day Pretty nice surface finds today.

    Hmm yeah those aren't really useful for dates, any sign of a date code on the base? Might not be clearly embossed. Based on the bottle design I'd guess roughly 1930s-ish anyway, give or take a decade.
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    Looking for some info on a Jar found about 45 years ago.

    Welcome to the forum! It's not that old of a jar, I'm guessing late 60s or early 70s based on the amount of rust on the cap and when you found it. That stippling around the base wasn't used before approximately 1950 or so. I don't know which company was using the bell logo, decent chance it...
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    Beautiful day Pretty nice surface finds today.

    The milk should have a date code on the heel or base but I can't make out what it says on the heel. It'll probably be an easy two-digit date code.
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    Super Rare Detroit Bottle Added.

    That's a great bottle, and beautiful embossing too!
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