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    Labeled small town medicine bottle - Ashland PA

    This is a mint condition bottle that originally contained Hagars Electric Relief. Who knows what the heck that was, or what it was made of. For a price of 50 cents, you could have any ailment under the sun cured for good.
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    Golden surprise in the ceiling!

    My grandfather was a collector of anything and everything under the sun. In his house, he stashed away all sorts of things. I've even found grenades in the walls. (deactivated) Today I noticed in the rafters in the basement, a very dusty insulator shaped object. I grabbed a ladder, climbed up...
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    Super rare local milks!

    I found these two pint milks in a couple of days ago. These are by far the rarest bottles I've ever dug. They are both 1941 dated Reichweins Dairy bottles from Fountain Springs Pennsylvania. Fountain Springs is a tiny little hamlet in Pennsylvania, and any bottle with that town name is pretty...
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    Coal Region blobs and early crowns

    Here are a couple more old coal region Pennsylvania bottles for your enjoyment. :) Sorry about the poor quality photos. Weyysers Porter came from a brewery in Mauch Chunk Pennsylvania, now Jim Thorpe Pennsylvania. Mauch Chunk was a major coal mining hub in the region for the railroads...
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    Beautiful Pottsville Beer and Soda

    Here are a couple of bottles from Pottsville Pennsylvania, a miners haven back in the 19th and 20th Centuries. This first beer bottle was from the Mellet and Nichter Brewing Company, that lasted from 1908 to 1920. This bottle strikes me as coming from the 1908 to 1915 era, due to its...
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    Pennsylvania Locals

    I had a bottle buyin' spree, and several more are coming in the mail. Eh, why not, you only live once. :/ W.H. Calvert, Charleroi PA. North Side Bottling Works, Latrobe PA. Wm. H. Raubenhold, Hamburg PA. Brokoffs Dairy, Pottsville PA. Wm. S. Cowen, Pottsville PA
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    Two beers, one heartbreaker

    I just moved to Pennsylvania, and I've already started hunting for bottles. First, I made a stop in Washington County where I find some interesting finds, but this Beer from Brownsville probably being the best. Then when I came to my new home in Ashland, I found this heartbreaker, a...
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    Civil War U.S.A. Hospital Department bottle

    I will be listing this U.S.A. Hosp. Dept. bottle on ebay within the next couple of days if I get no bites here. I'm not looking to sell it here, but rather just get it out into the atmosphere that I will be selling it shortly. If y'all have a bunch of Schuylkill county Pennsylvania bottles, I'll...
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    Cylindrical bottle and dish

    I found this bottle in the ruins of my 4th great uncles house in Pennsylvania. There were a bunch of bottle shards and pieces, and this was the only whole one. It is tall and thin, and blown in mold. I think it dates to the 1880s which is about the time my 4th Great uncle was murdered. I was...
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    Cool druggist bottle history

    A lot of times, it is difficult to research Druggist bottles, especially if they are rare. At most in some instances, only a directory, or some obscure reference in a medical publication will give up the name of the druggist, giving an approximate year of operations. That's not the case with...
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    WTB/WTT Schuylkill County Pennsylvania bottles

    Howdy fellas, I'm looking for Schuylkill County Pennsylvania bottles. I like pre-1920 bottles the most, but embossed milks as late as the 1960s are good too. I am really interested in druggist and pharmacy bottles from Ashland, Pottsville, Frackville, Manahoy City, Mount Carmel, etc. I like...
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    Neat small town dump finds

    So two weeks ago I was up in Pennsylvania digging in a massive dump. I mean this thing is huge, being in use from the 1860s, through the 1960s. The town dumped all of their garbage in a 200 yard long swath of hillside, and then dumped in another area for about 30 yards and then stopped again...
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    Pennsylvania farm finds

    Last month I had the chance to dig a 1900s-1930s dump in Washington County Pennsylvania. I found tons of bottles, but these jars were some of the most interesting survivors, mostly because the dozens and dozens of other jars I found were shattered. These are 100% chip and scratch free! And clean...
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    Old Pennsylvania Railroad find

    A year or two ago, I was helping someone clean out their garage and noticed this insulator. I fell in love with it instantly. The fellow gave it to me, saying that he found it along old Pennsylvania Railroad lines near Harrisburg. It's not common, but not rare either but it sure is old! The...
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    Druggist bottles

    I got these four bottles the other day because I wanted to branch out into the world of druggist bottles. Besides, they're cool. :) The R.R. Harting bottles are both BIM, and date to around 1895-1910. I found R.R. Harting mentioned in pharmaceutical publications in 1890, 1899, and 1900. C.J...
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    Labeled poison/skull and crossbones object

    I don' try to collect poison bottles with the original contents, I just end up with them. :D This is a neat ca. 1915-1925 triangular poison bottle withe the original label, cork and contents. As to what exactly it is, I don't know. I've heard of "Triloids" but not "Trilets". Also, does...
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    Awesome Railroad finds!

    Today I hunted for several hours along an old abandoned railroad line in Kentucky. This particular stretch of railroad was in use from the 1870s, through the 1940s when coal stopped coming out of that particular area. As I was walking along the overgrown mess that is the area now, I was picking...
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    Poisons with original contents

    Yesterday I went to an antique shop and found these two poisons for a few dollars a piece. Honestly I saw the word poison, saw the low price and didn't even think about what was inside. This is a Canadian Tincture of Iodine poison from the 40s or 50s (?). The label is in poor shape, but...
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    POISONS

    I am looking to buy some "beginner" poison bottles, nothing crazy. :) I don't want any Sharpe and Dohme bottles, unless they are labeled. What I'd LOVE to have, is one of those amber Tinct. of Iodine bottles with the skull and crossbones. Any amber, cobalt blue or green poison bottle will do...
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    My first poison!

    I found this 1oz. ribbed bottle last week in a farmhouse dump in Pennsylvania. (You'll see more of my finds scattered elsewhere in the next few days or so) I was mostly finding small, unenbossed medicine bottles, but then this fell out of a shovel full of dirt I was tossing aside and took me by...

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