Treasures from our property

A couple more items...I really like the Garland label and would like to use it in our cabin but not sure what to do....




bottom of the jug is broken off but it's still pretty neat

can you turn any of it in for scrap metal? I've made a few hauls this summer and made some extra money

I did a search on it and it does look like it but not sure what musterole is?
I found a few listed on ebay

I looked up musterole because I thought it looked like a Vicks jar - seems they were both pretty similar substances.

This is one of my favorite past times on our old place. There are two known junk piles that I like to dig through, but only in the winter time as I worry about snakes and poison ivy. I've found some cool stuff --- sorry I don't have pictures. The neatest thing I found is a bisque china dolls head, without eyes or body. Kinda creepy seeing it facing me from the junk, but once I realized what it was I was thrilled. I've also found tons of vicks jars (fortunately I love blue glass), old kitchen things which I use for planting containers, and a really nice rug beater. If I knew where the outhouse used to be I'd dig there, you bet!

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We live in a 1910 house, too. So far have found one marble while digging around in the yard.

Found a junior police badge in the yard with a metal detector, the pin still works! Every spring we metal detect again, you never know what the frost may have heaved upward.

I like digging around in the ground for stuff too. It's amazing what the earth pukes up isn't it? The logo on the bottom of the white jar reminds me of the Anchor Hocking symbol, but it's a little fuzzy so I could be wrong.

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neighbor and I dug thru an old building on my place. we found all kinds of old bottles...the majority being alcohol bottles! there were also old syrup bottles, medicine bottles, beer bottles, jars from some kind of meat cutlets, and a couple old wooden boxes from some beef company. Most of these things have found homes in my rock gardens.

I love old bottles and marbles and things like that. THeres an old pond near by. It was a low spot that the pond makers used a dozer and scraper to make the levee. Theres a big Slot pushed out where the borrowed materials were from. Back the slot was then made into a rural dump. Its about a mile from any known houses maybe one old home/ farm.

That used to be a neat place to go to. THere was ton of old leather kids boots and shoes. I found an old peuter cap gun, inger sewing machine and stand, marbles, an old bakelite toy cat. wagon wheel and a few old refrigerators . I have the cap gun here somewhere and the crome emblems off the fridges. I also packed out the old singer and stand. I found another singer that someone converted into a peddle powered scroll saw. We revovered it and I gave it to a friend that restored it.

It was logged off a few years ago and the new under groths has hidding it and the skidders tore up some of the treasures. I talked to the owners about taking te backhoe back there to excavate it. He agreed as he wants to see the treasures to.

It's possible, but most of it is so badly corroded that it has lost much of its structural integrity. The engine block is half-buried in the hillside and rammed with dirt but I think I will try to excavate it and drag it out. That might be worth something to the scrap guy, possibly.

with my camera I can't get a good close up of it...

When we tore down the old chicken house (unrepairable), under the floor I found one of those blown glass eggs. I wondered if a snake had swallowed it, got a belly ache and crawled under the chicken house to die.

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For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring - Carl Sagan