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I was walking through my local park when I walked over to an area that I hadn't visited for the last couple of weeks.
What do I see but a big old tree that had toppled over recently.
I walked over to the root ball that was now sticking over 7' high out of the ground and looked at the hole in the ground which went about 3-4' deep...deeper in a few spots.
I took my detector and scanned the area that used to be underground but is now open and got some signals.
Took out my handheld and started to run it around the dirt and got a lot more signals but every one that I dug was either an old can top, wire or rusted nail or other iron.
I looked up at the bottom of the big root ball towering over me and scanned that too and that is when I saw the bottom of this complete bottle sticking out with a broken piece of another green bottle next to it.
Then I started digging through this thing looking for more bottles.
I know that this part of the park used to be used as a landfill and dump in the 1800's.
Horton-Cato Mtg Co. Detroit Mich embossed.
This is a large version of other bottles I have seen selling on bottle sites and EBay, the largest bottle of this type I have seen for sale so far is a little over 5" tall...mine is 8".
This was a company that made salad dressing and other condiments under the name Royal that dates back to being trademarked in 1914 but were manufacturing before that so this bottle might go back to pre 1900 and appears to be the type sealed with a big cork.
Their salad dressing bottles were usually embossed that way but this one doesn't have that so maybe a ketchup bottle?
I don't really collect bottles but this seems like a nice start if I decide to do that.
For history buffs if you click on this 1910 digital picture and expand it you can see the large backwards sign on the building this bottle came from in the background of the middle section.
http://www.shorpy.com/node/13288
I dug around a bit more yesterday but I will go back and root around this now open area again later today.
Could be more bottles or hopefully coins in this spot that hasn't seen the light of day for over 100 years.
What do I see but a big old tree that had toppled over recently.
I walked over to the root ball that was now sticking over 7' high out of the ground and looked at the hole in the ground which went about 3-4' deep...deeper in a few spots.
I took my detector and scanned the area that used to be underground but is now open and got some signals.
Took out my handheld and started to run it around the dirt and got a lot more signals but every one that I dug was either an old can top, wire or rusted nail or other iron.
I looked up at the bottom of the big root ball towering over me and scanned that too and that is when I saw the bottom of this complete bottle sticking out with a broken piece of another green bottle next to it.
Then I started digging through this thing looking for more bottles.
I know that this part of the park used to be used as a landfill and dump in the 1800's.
Horton-Cato Mtg Co. Detroit Mich embossed.
This is a large version of other bottles I have seen selling on bottle sites and EBay, the largest bottle of this type I have seen for sale so far is a little over 5" tall...mine is 8".
This was a company that made salad dressing and other condiments under the name Royal that dates back to being trademarked in 1914 but were manufacturing before that so this bottle might go back to pre 1900 and appears to be the type sealed with a big cork.
Their salad dressing bottles were usually embossed that way but this one doesn't have that so maybe a ketchup bottle?
I don't really collect bottles but this seems like a nice start if I decide to do that.
For history buffs if you click on this 1910 digital picture and expand it you can see the large backwards sign on the building this bottle came from in the background of the middle section.
http://www.shorpy.com/node/13288
I dug around a bit more yesterday but I will go back and root around this now open area again later today.
Could be more bottles or hopefully coins in this spot that hasn't seen the light of day for over 100 years.
