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bottleviking
Citizen
Username: Bottleviking
Post Number: 1
Registered: 6-2002
| | Posted on Monday, February 17, 2003 - 12:18 pm: |     |
Do you own an old home or old property? (before 1880) Are you interested in discovering what artifacts lie buried in your backyard? My son and I would like to locate and excavate the contents of your old privvy or well. We do it for fun and leave everything just as we found it. We have found lots of interesting things: bottles, jars, old dolls, marbles and broken pottery.We do all the work and leave things nice and neat. There is no residue nor health concerns (aside from a sore back) after all these years. Please give us your permission to unearth lost objects of beauty. Thank you.--The Bottle Vikings of New Jersey. |
Ed May
Citizen
Username: Edmay
Post Number: 1179
Registered: 9-2001
| | Posted on Monday, February 17, 2003 - 11:11 pm: | |
Welcome bottle viking to MOL.
Ed May |
bottleviking
Citizen
Username: Bottleviking
Post Number: 2
Registered: 6-2002
| | Posted on Saturday, February 22, 2003 - 1:46 pm: | |
Thanks, Ed. You don't happen to own a civil war era home do you? Do you have any friends who do? I had thought by now I'd have at least stirred up a little interest. After all, we do all the work and don't charge anything--except perhaps a glass of ice water every two hours. If it helps us get permissions, we'll supply our own ice water. |
ml1
Citizen
Username: Ml1
Post Number: 652
Registered: 5-2002
| | Posted on Saturday, February 22, 2003 - 1:57 pm: | |
good luck bottleviking,
but I think you'll find few civil war era homes in Maplewood. as I understand it, most homes in town were built between the turn of the century and the late '20s. There are a few 19th century homes though, so you may get a nibble. |
Joan
Citizen
Username: Joancrystal
Post Number: 1441
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Sunday, February 23, 2003 - 7:41 pm: | |
m/1 is right. A lot of the land around here was farm land and woods during the civil war period. |
ajc
Citizen
Username: Ajc
Post Number: 902
Registered: 9-2001
| | Posted on Sunday, February 23, 2003 - 9:29 pm: | |
Bottleviking,
Sounds interesting. Les Sasions, circa 1840 has given up lots of interesting things over the past 58 years my family and I have lived here: bottles, jars, old dolls, marbles and broken pottery. I'm sorry to say I don't know if there are anymore things left?
You and your son are welcome to come over and take a look. Give me a call first.... Art. |
jgberkeley
Supporter
Username: Jgberkeley
Post Number: 2786
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Monday, February 24, 2003 - 8:37 am: | |
Five years ago while building a garden area I ran across a brick lined dry well for an abandoned drain system. I started finding glass and dug the entire pit out. Given the burned garbage, cans, nails and wood, it was also used as a fire pit and dump during the construction of my home in 1921. I found several whole bottles. One bottle was a wine/brandy bottle that was etched. It was from Germany-1914. My brother has it now. I have and use for a flower vase, a ‘Bordens’ dairy, milk bottle that survived the years and is of the 1920’s style.
I’d offer to allow you to re-dig it, but I went all the way to the bottom and backfilled it with the rocks and bricks. In addition my Asparagus garden is now well established over it and I don’t want to disturb it.
My point to other readers, you may well have some area of interest in you yards. Any sign of a round depression in the lawn would be a clue.
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bottleviking
Citizen
Username: Bottleviking
Post Number: 3
Registered: 6-2002
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 26, 2003 - 12:12 pm: | |
Thank you all for your helpful postings. I will contact the owner of Les Sesions! Yes, most interesting bottles were manufactured from 1830-1890, so that old properties would have to be in that age range.There are some old homes here in Maplewood, but not that many. Often times, very wonderful objects can also be located in town dumps or abandoned refuse pits--or even wells. If anyone happens to know the location of any of these in or around Maplewood, or knows someone who might-- I'd certainly appreciate hearing about it.
Respectfully--The Bottle Vikings of New Jersey |
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