How to dig a privy and find stuff like this.

An 1850's quart scroll flask lies waiting for over 150 years in a soft bed of fluffy seeds

Hemingray 1858 Mason jar in cobalt blue.
 

Fantastic finds await the dedicated privy digger.

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Tales of privy diggers, digging privies.

I am your host, Eddie Brater, and I invite you to ride on the wings of the ages, with me and my buds, as we journey through time. Step down through the grass encircled portal, into the time machine with us, and feel the thrill of suddenly arriving in the American 1850's.

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( November 2003)

      Eddie, in his privy digging permission getting hat.

When I wear this hat, here is what I say when they answer the door;
(Note; Shiny black walking cane with brass head not shown, but very integral to presentation)

Good afternoon my Dear Fine Gentleman. My name is Edwin George Brater the 3rd, and I have found myself standing on your porch to inquire if your interest in discovery and adventure will permit me to further explain myself. You see, I am an urban, archeo-privologist. I have had the adventurous wherewithal to have made myself an expert at recovering long lost treasures from the past in the form of early glass vessels and period artifacts circa 1800 / 1880. By way of a short yet thorough pre-examination of your dwelling and associated property, I have concluded that there is a very high likelihood that your back yard contains a small subterranean deposit of early American antiquities. For the mere permission to do so, I would like to conduct a brief examination of a particular small area within your back yard where these treasures are likely to be buried. Of course, there is no charge, other than a share of the items found. The small  3 by 4 foot area will be methodically restored to it's current state and virtually no trace of our presence will remain. We would like to avoid any and all unnecessary complications and begin immediately. Shall we proceed with the privy digging adventure ?

It's fun to dig and collect Antique Bottles. Here are the antique bottles I like to collect. antique soda bottles, squat soda bottles, antique medicine bottles, antique bitters bottles, antique poison bottles, antique black glass bottles, antique cure bottles, trade pipes, tavern pipes, reed pipes, face pipes, antique bisque doll heads, open pontil bottles, iron pontil bottles, hinge mold bottles, applied lips, bimal bottles, rolled lip bottles, antique marbles, antique fruit jars, rare bottles, old bottles, sea weed yellow ware, mocha yellow ware, worm yellow ware, saltglaze / salt glaze jugs and crocks, antique ironstone, chamber pots, cobalt slip stone ware / stoneware, Cincinnati bottles.