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 Posted 01/17/2009  3:42 pm Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add Tim Stroud to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
Went out into the woods today to do some relic hunting. After about an hour I came upon an old trash dump full of broken bottles and rusted metal cans and such. Dug around in that mess for 45 minutes and unearthed this gem. A 1/2 gallon brown glass Clorox bottle, with the metal screw cap still intact!! Very little rust on it. This is what it looks like cleaned up

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 Posted 01/17/2009  4:15 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add KurtS to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Interesting that you found that intact with the cap!
About what year is that from?
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Nice bottle you have there. It appears to be dated 1951 to 1954. The screw top started in 1940. From 1940 to 1950 the clorox letters were solid. In 1951 the letters changed to outlined letters.

When my brother and I were young we would go down to the city dump and grab up all the old bottles we could find. We managed to find over 300 bottles of all kinds. That was over 30 years ago. We both moved away and left all the bottles in my parents basement. Last I talked to my mom not to long ago and asked her about the bottles she told me there were only around 10 left. She works at an antique market and over the years has been taking them in and selling them a few at a time. I did manage to get 2 old milk bottles out of it. Oh well.
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Thanks guys, and thanks for the info Southern Yankee. I had know idea it was that old. I was thinking maybe early 60's. That was the only thing of interest that I found intact. I left 2 square jars there that were quart size and had the name "HANDEE" in raised lettering on all 4 sides of the shoulder. Should I go back for those?

I plan on going to a different wooded location today to do the same kind of hunting, it is supposed to be the site were some believed Confederate troops camped for several weeks awaiting resupply before the battle of Kinston. It doesn't appear on any of the old maps and my neighbor who is a Civil War historian says that he is not so sure they did, but that it wouldn't hurt to try.
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