The landscapers are here digging up the driveway and yard and been finding some really cool stuff lately. Buried treasures as I like to call them. The first thing they found was an old cobalt blue bottle. Isn’t it beautiful!?
The HH did some research and discovered it was an old milk of magnesia bottle {with some cloudy liquid still inside!!!}. How cool is that?
I dared him to open it and have a swig but he declined. 😉
The guys also found coal. I don’t know why I was so excited about this but I was. Maybe the previous owners had a coal stove at some point?
Who knows.
Another cool find was a mercury dime from 1936. I have no idea how they even spotted that.
It made me wonder though if there was some sort of cache underground or if someone just happened to drop a dime. I told the HH he should dust off his metal detector and see if he can find some more coins.
According to the Google the dime is worth anywhere from $2-10.
So far we’re up to 2 blue bottles, 2 small lotion {??} jars {the HH thinks the dark blue one might be a Vick’s vapor rub jar}, an old dime, a piece of coal, an old perfume {?} bottle and some sort of red thingamajig.
I wonder what we’ll find next!?
Have you ever found anything cool while digging in your yard? Anything you’d consider buried treasure? Curious minds want to know.
Peace Out.
~ Mavis
Janie says
Awesome finds, love the blue bottles!!
Janie
Deb from Ohio says
I like the blue bottles, they’d look cool lined up with yellow flowers in them. I wonder if the blue jars were old Vicks jars?
And that mercury dime is pretty sweet!
Mavis Butterfield says
I was thinking dried craspedia would look cool in them. 🙂 I love that flower!
Tracey says
The red thing is a bicycle peg
Lana says
Our five kids are long grown up, 34 to 45, and we still find Matchbox cars and plastic army men in the yard. It’s a happy reminder of a house full of kids.
Mavis Butterfield says
That is so awesome! They probably bring you back in time when you find them. 🙂
Ramona says
Over the years I’ve found many things from different houses. My treasured ones are from a 1906 house in Ballard, Wa. Found a small ceramic chicken about an inch or so big and a yellow metal airplane about 2inches, plus some old marbles.
Another house in Idaho had a freezer buried in the ground by a shed, not expecting to find that. Not sure if someone didn’t want to take it to the dump or used it for something else, that was not something I would consider a treasure.
charwelsh says
The freezer may have been used as a root cellar.
Ramona says
That was my thought.
MD says
Freezer buried in the yard is used as a root cellar. You could store your potatoes in it.
Ashley B says
The first year I was in my house I redid the beds around the house and near the back kitchen window I found someone’s glasses. An elderly couple had lived there before me, and before them an older man. I kept thinking about a Murder She Wrote episode where two old ladies burry their dead roommate in the flower bed to continue collecting his social security income.
Lynn from NC Outer Banks says
The bottles are so pretty and definite treasures. I remember as a young child the cobalt blue milk of magnesia bottles and the Vicks vapo-rub bottles. The Mercury dime was quite a find also. A very interesting treasure trove!
Nancy W says
The house I grew up in had an old “junk yard” we would spend hours sifting through the dirt. My father even made us a sieve which made the job easier! We found so many old bottles and I found an iron horse which must have been part of a toy. Hours of fun.
Nancy says
Difficult to tell from the photo but I have a bottle quite similar to the clear one. It may be a container for the yellow coloring cooks used to have to mix by hand into margarine. It was originally illegal to sell margarine with yellow coloring pre-mixed into it. The fear was that it might be used to trick cooks into thinking they were purchasing butter.
Mrs. C. says
I am old enough to remember Milk of Magnesia and Vick’s Vapo-Rub coming in those blue glass bottles!
Linda Sand says
Model railroaders would love to have that piece of coal. It makes a good mold for scale model rock retaining walls.