Galveston Dig

[nhpharm]

Got a little behind on posting, but I made it out a few weeks ago with my oldest son and we probed out a couple promising spots. My hole ended up being a nice 1880's privy that was loaded (not dipped) but was not super thick with bottles. I managed to pull out a nice early GG hutch soda from Galveston and a great JJ Schott pharmacy bottle as well as a Shenck's and a nice sauce. My son's hole was a small trash pit from the early 1870's next to an animal trough that was filled with 1860's stuff. We managed to pull out a couple early 1870's Henry Veers pharmacy bottles (quite rare bottles), a heartbreaker 1860's gravitating from Galveston with the top knocked off, and a nice early hock wine that is embossed on the base "I.I. Burck/Frankfurt" along with a few other odds and ends. At the top of the privy we dug a Delgado's Chili Powder bottle from Dallas that is from the late 1910's but is super rare. We also dug a Saxe's Opera House druggist bottle from Omaha, Nebraska...if only that bottle could talk! It was a good (but very hot) dig.

 

[nhpharm]

Both boys and I went out Sunday for our first official summer dig of 2024. I probed out a couple promising spots early in the day that ended up both being privies. The boys focused on the smaller one (2' x 4' x 4' or so) and I attacked the larger one (4' x 4' x 6' or so). Mine ended up being late 1890's and early 1900's and had a fair number of bottles but not much of interest; one JJ Schott pharmacy bottle (in a size I don't have) was the prize in that one along with a light amber goblet that was perfectly intact. The privy my sons were digging ended up having a gorgeous Lone Star hutch soda (very scarce variation), a Galveston Mignon crown top soda, and a Maschner crown top that is the first example we have dug that wasn't all cracked up. I opened up a third hole that ended up being super modern trash (1970's) and had just enough gumption left to open a fourth hole that had some 1860's black glass down at 6' and one FAB horseshoe hutch (cracked sadly) from Galveston at about 4'. It was fun but was extraordinarily hot for this time of the year.

 

[timeandabottle]

Cracked or not, I like that Galveston horseshoe. Keep up the good work!

 

[nhpharm]

They are one of my favorites from Galveston and are quite scarce...F.A.B. stands for Ferdinand A. Bartz, and he had identical bottles embossed from Weimar that are extremely rare.