Friday, July 3, 2009
Close, but no cigar.
Oh well, that's how bottle digging goes sometimes. Todays attempt showed possibles, but feeble results in the end. We did dig a bunch of bottles, just nothing to write home about. A few SF jakes, a couple Farrells, a nice six sided cathedral sauce, piles of the usual throw back blacks, star based unembossed fifths and sixths, inks, etc, etc. Criers were cobalt and green sodas, a shoulder crown Martin fifth, and a super colored Hostie. The major criers were two crackerjacked Lacour's. Why are the "goodies" always thrashed? Yeah, the open pontilled Richardson's came out whole, but that's barely a keeper. I guess there's always tomorrow. One thing we did get to dig were tons of monster hunks of granite.
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ReplyDeleteOldCutters,
ReplyDeleteThe Lacour's bottle in the top picture is a variant 3, the second pictured example also appears to be a variant 3, however the lettering looks much thinner. Did you keep this shard? I would be interested in seeing it.
Nah, I'm not much of a shard keeper. Those, and the blacks, went back for someone else to discover.
ReplyDeleteI was fooling you, Warren, of course the pieces and parts are saved. I didn't keep the blacks, though.
ReplyDeleteOldCutter,
ReplyDeleteYou are an ole arkie at heart, even throwing some back in hole for the future arks' black-market bazaar!
Exciting looking dig, were any of the 5ths/6ths colored ?
ReplyDeleteYes, but nothin' especially spectacular, Andrew. After attempting to glue some of the "LaCoors" pieces together, it was discovered that we had shards of 4 bottles. The big hunk was complete to the base of the top "rings". It was mighty fun, but the monster granite blocks sure were a major pain in the back. Not good for my gnarly old arse. Rocks are what lunched the good bottles.
ReplyDeleteTo me, black ales are as bad as crockery ones. I won't bother taking them home to occupy space until doomsday. Trying to sell those things is nigh to impossible. When the archies hit "P", the granite will kick their puny butts. Of course, they only dig when someone pays 'em to do it, and they have a "hoe" to do the grunt work. A dental pick, trowel, and a little brush are all the tools the lightweights can handle.