BOTTLE DIGGING-LET'S GET DIGGING
I am an avid bottle digger and collector, and have dug since I was 12, and am now 51. I find this a wonderful hobby as well as exercise, in addtion a lesson in history. I have found everything from 1800's bottles to depression era glass and rare and common glass insulators. I try to get out and dig once a week--at least, during the nice months, here in northeastern Pa. I am always looking for places to dig, as well as old or new interested collectors to dig along with and share my dump sites. If anyone is interested, or has any stories or finds to share, please feel free to do so. I think these interested collectors help keep those of us who love the hobby (or sport--could call it that) going. I am heading out to dig this Wednesday and hope for some interesting finds. I also sell on ebay and you can check me out on there at bottlecindy (my ebay selling name)
HORSESRUSCINDY
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TO SHARE OR NOT TO SHARE
Question is: Should one share their finds with other diggers who are also on the same dig? Is this fair, or should each digger keep their own finds?
I know some who split their proceeds. As for me, usually I keep what I find, and allow the same for those who dig with me. We may trade if one has something another wants and or collects.
What is fair and what isn't? I think it is up to those on the dig.
My hubby loves bottles too. We live on a farm which has lots of "bootlegging" history, so he is always on the lookout. He has shared his hobby with his stepdaughter and they now both collect bottles together.
Hello, Keeper of the Family:
I know, here in northeastern Pa., we have lots of old farms, and live on 17 acres of an old one in which there have to be dumps, but I cannot find any. I imagine they may have been covered over. I also know old privies (old houses) to be good sources of bottle finds. I recently heard from a fellow digger who lives about an hour+ from me, and he and another found some terrific old colored blob top sodas and beers from the 1850 era unwards, in an old privy in town. Out here in the country, with the land available, people usually dumped in low lying areas, woods, and behind barns and across roads in ravines. They have their outhouses (privies) but did not perhaps use them as those in town did, as they have places to dispose of their bottles and other "throw-aways".
Now, with a cold winter in the midst, bottle digging is "on hold" for the time being. I am anxious for an early spring (as the ground hog predicted...LOL) and back to getting out of the house, and doing some physical labor. Bottle collecting is a GREAT hobby and sport (as I call it) for all, and I know I began as a child of 12, when my father brought home an old bottle he had found while digging a fence post at his office property, which was also my grandmother's house. Now, over 40 years later, I am as interested, if not more, than I was then.
If anyone comes through the northeastern Pa. section, or lives in this vicinity, and wants to do some serious bottle digging, drop me a line (horsesruscindy@yahoo.com)
Pam
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