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Items pictured on this web site are mainly used for educational value.
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Item Sold December 2012
Item Sold December 2012
Item Sold December 2012
GREAT BOTTLE DIGGING STORIES
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 Links allow users to click their way from page to page. You will find thousands of  links on this website.

TIPPECANOE AND A SWAMP DIG, TOO!
Johnson & Johnson, The New York Times and a rewarding Greenwich Village dig.
LUCINDA'S ROCK PILE
 
Interest in bottle collecting!

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This bottles are from a July, 2009 West Saint Paul, Minnesota area dig. West Saint Paul has a long, rich history in good dig sites for bottles and other glass products.  Many of these bottles and fruit jars on our website were dug by individuals in sites all over Saint Paul, Minnesota and the USA. Stop in to West Saint Paul Antique Mall and look over all our large gallery of bottles and fruit jars.  Click Here for the Home page to this website.

Just What Are Outhouse Diggers?
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How to dig a privy and find stuff like this.
dig journal
dig journal
dig journal
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dig journal
dig journal
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dig journal
Death By Outhouse!
dig journal
two decades excavating privies
The Privy Digger


Upon the crest of day, through dew that soaks the shoe,
The Privy Digger, probe in hand, is walking straight and true.
He probes a line from house to fence, marking by his stride.
While ghosts of privy users past do in the shadows hide.

Their footsteps long forgotten, even by the stone paved path,
That lies a century under time, 10 inches under grass.
The Privy Digger sees the signs invisible to most.
From squares of greener garden to the dip of old fence post.

The click and clack and tap of probe to his ears tell a tale,
That Mother Nature over time endeavored to make pale.
With all thoughts caught between two worlds a century apart,
He lives the now in body sound, the past lives in his heart.

By Eddie Brater

3 crazy buds digging old poopers
We quickly piled up another dozen or more Shiloh's Cures.
This dig is situated at the country home of a settler family named Herron.
Harrison, Ohio privy dig
a certain old neighborhood
BOTTLE DIGGING IN COALMINE COUNTRY
AN INSPIRING AND ENERGIZING DIG IN THE "CLOUD CITY"
A GHOSTLY DIG
A SPIRITED DIG
A SPIRITED DIG - by DIGGER ODELL
The Pickle and Magazine Pit
DIGGING IN THE 'HEIGHTS' privy
Saving Some Privies From Certain Destruction
"Hot Town! Summer in the City
Musings of a Privy Digger
Musings of a Privy Digger
DIGGING A GOOD BITTERS BOTTLE
Cincinnati September 1997
The pit never really panned out.
Ringing in the New Year . . . in Privy Heaven
Can You Imagine Digging a Brooklyn Privy
Interest in bottle or Jar collecting

 The Saint Paul & Minneapolis area has been generated by the fact that Minnesota had such a long, rich history in the manufacture of bottles and other glass products. Glass production ranked as  one of the 10 top industry in the USA at its peak during the 19th century. The Saint Paul and Minneapolis Glassworks, for example, was an excellent producer of a broad variety of bottles during that era. Many of these bottles were dug by individuals in sites all over the city and surrounding counties. This led to the fascinating hobby of antique bottle & jar  collecting with a predominant focus on bottles manufactured in Minnesota.  Click Here for the next page.
It might surprise suds lovers in Buffalo, New York, to learn that there was a Buffalo Brewing Comapny which was only tenuously connected with their fair city. It was at Sacramento, California, in the year 1889 that Henry Grau founded the Buffalo Brewing Company. Grau had previously brewed in Buffalo, New York, and apparently liked the name. In Sacramento he built a large brewery building facing 21st Street between Q and R Streets, said to have been the largest brewery west of the Mississippi at that time. Production began on May 7, 1890, and eventually reached a capacity of 420 barrels per brew. The plant had its own malting works, as well as refrigerated storerooms. It was served by three railroad spurs which branched off the Southern Pacific's R Street industrial line. On the other side of town, Swiss immigrant Frank Ruhstaller had purchased Sacramento's City Brewery in 1881 where he produced a steam beer. He also built another brewery at 12th and H Streets and sold his beer under the Ruhstaller label. Ruhstaller maintained an impressive three-story Victorian headquarters building and taproom at 9th and J Streets in the downtown area. With the growing popularity of cold-brewed lager beer, Ruhstaller discontinuted production of steam beer and merged his holdings with Buffalo in 1897. The Ruhstaller family eventually became the major shareholders and managers of Buffalo Brewing Company.
Fruit Jars
Inkwells and Glass Insulators
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Inkwells and Glass Insulators
Inkwells (Click Here)
Inkwells and Glass Insulators
Glass Insulators (Click Here)
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Bottle Clubs
  • Baltimore Antique Bottle Club
  • The Bytown Bottle Seekers Club
  • Cape May County Bottle Collectors
  • Classic Wheaton Club  
  • Federation of Historical Bottle Collectors
  • Finger Lakes Bottle Collectors Association  
  • Genesee Valley Bottle Collectors Association  
  • The Golden Gate Historical Bottle Society  
  • The Little Rhody Bottle Club
  • Los Angeles Historical Bottle Club
  • Midwest Antique Fruit Jar & Bottle Club
  • Miniature Bottle Collector Online
  • National Association Of Milk Bottle Collectors, Inc.  
  • Ohio Bottle Club
  • Painted Soda Bottle Collectors Association
  • Phoenix Antiques, Bottles, & Collectibles Club
  • Potomac Bottle Collectors
  • Raleigh Bottle Club  
  • Tri State Bottle Collectors and Diggers Club
  • Violin Bottle Collectors Association  
Fruit Jars
  • Fruit Jar Page
  • Fruit Jar Collector Website
  • How To Date Ball Fruit Jars
  • Marsell's Fruit Jar Page  
  • Greg Spurgeon Antiques
Insulators

  • Crown Jewels of the Wire
  • Insulator Collectors On the Net WebRing
  • Insulators Glass & Porcelain
  • National Insulator Association
Milk Bottles
  • Adverstising Dairy Creamer Trade List
  • Annette's North Carolina Milk Bottles
  • Antique Hawaiian Milkcaps
  • Bill's Kaiser's Milk Bottle Page  
  • Early American Workshop
  • Ken's Milk Bottle Page
  • Larry Berndt's Milk Bottle Page  
  • Milk Bottle News
  • North Carolina Milk Bottles  
  • Ralph & Bonnie Kipp's Milk Bottle Page
Poison Bottles
  • Antique Poison Bottle (Coming Soon)  
Soda and Beer Bottles
  • Beer Bottle (Coming Soon)   
  • Kreeger's Antique Bottle Market  
  • Wrinkles Antique Bottles Sales & Services
Publications
  • Antique Bottle & Glass Collector Magazine
  • Antique Bottle Price Guides
  • Bottles and More Magazine
  • Bygones Magazine
Auctions
  • American Bottle Auctions (Coming Soon) 
  • Ebay  
  • Norman C. Heckler and Company
General Bottle Sites
  • Antique Bottle 
  • Antique-Bottles.net
  • Antique Bottles Of Baltimore
  • Antique Bottle Trader  
  • The Bottle Den
  • Bottle Divers in Paradise
  • Bottle Room  
  • Buying South Carolina Bottles & Pottery
  • California Perfume Company
  • Cobalt Blue
  • The Dog House List Page
  • Early Glass Collector
  • Eddie's Privy Page
  • Edwin Kaukali - Hawaiian Bottle Collector
  • Eyebaths.Com
  • Flaschenjager (Bottle Hunter)  
  • Hawaii Soda Bottles
  • Historic Glasshouse  
  • Jeff and Holly Noordsy  
  • Matt's Collectibles
  • Mike Henness's Bitters Bottle Collection
  • National Bottle Museum  
  • Old South Jersey Glass
  • Paul's Bottle Digging Page
  • Scott's Privy Page
  • The Sinsley's Place Collections
  • Spartanburg, SC Antique Bottles
  • Terry's Torpedo Bottle Web Site  
  • Tim's Bottle Digging in Nebraska Site  
Foreign Web Sites
Africa
  • Antique Bottles
Australia
  • Australian Antiques, Bottles & Collectable  
  • Oz Bottles
Canada
  • Bytown Bottle Seekers  
  • Canadian Bottle Lovers Page
New Zealand
  • Wellington Antique Bottle & Collectables Club Inc.
United Kingdom 
  • Bottle Bill's Bottle Dump
  • BottleDiggers UK
  • Bottles and Bygones
  • Unique

Gallery of Bottles part 2
Gallery of Bottles part 2 (Click Here)
Gallery of Jars
Gallery of Jars (Click Here)
Gallery of Bottles part 2 (Click Here)
Gallery of Bottles (part 2)
Bottler & Jars - Home page (Click Here)
Bottler & Jars (Home page)
Gallery of Jars (Click Here)
Gallery of Jars
Email from: Anita Gianakas <anitag@kccsd.org> 8/8/2022 3:37 PM
Floyd and Linda,
My name is Anita Gianakas and as an assistant media specialist up here in Knox County Maine, I wanted to let West Saint Paul Antiques know your web page was a big help to our library! This one - http://weststpaulantiques.com/collectibles/bottlesjars.html 
We're hosting a special 'Antique Collectors and Pickers' workshop this summer. Antiques are really popular up here in Maine and New England, so we thought we would do a fun, community based seminar to teach our members all about antiques and collecting! I'm compiling a reference guide for the attendees, and I have some student volunteers assisting me! Your page had some fantastic bottle and glass collecting information to incorporate, so my students requested I reach out and let you know how much you've helped us :)
With that being said, I was hoping you could include a suggestion from our library? One of my students, Ashley, found this bottle collecting guide... https://blog.bottlestore.com/the-curious-world-of-bottle-collecting-and-the-people-who-collect-them/
Ashley was very excited to share it with you!  She thought it would make a wonderful addition to your page! Will you let me know if you're able to include it for her? I know she would be thrilled to see she could help other collectors! Thanks again!
Looking forward to hearing from you!
Mrs. G
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Oh, by the way, also check out all our Antiques, Collectibles, artwork, art pottery, clocks, mall specials,  furniture types and styles,  jewelry and militaria items for sale in our Antique Mall.  Check it out by going to Antique Mall Tour. This site will be totally commercial free with no fees to pay.  I'll be working on this site over time so bear with me. It should be finished by the end of 2048 with over 10,000 pages at that time and 500 pages by the end of next year.
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