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A low tech treasure hunter uses vintage maps and steel probes to find and excavate antique bottles and collectibles in forgotten heritage sites.
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Elfshot: Sticks and Stones, an Archeology Blog on Canada Blog Friends

Sep 26, 2009
Tim Rast writes Elfshot: Sticks and Stones, which is an archeology blog centered on his life and work in St Johns, Newfoundland. Tim is a modern day flintknapper and his domain is profiled this week on Canada Blog Friends. A flintknapper is someone...

Passion for the Past Antiques in Toronto

Sep 13, 2009
The writing is on the chalkboard out front of Passion for the Past antiques store at 1646 Queen St West (Queen and Roncesvalles) in downtown Toronto, Ontario. For ten years now the shop at the top of the hill has been selling fine china, dishware,...



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  What’s a Dumpdigger? More than treasure hunters who find relics for profit, Dumpdiggers are dedicated research historians committed to recovering and preserving their community’s forgotten heritage. They’re storytellers with a thirst for knowledge. What do they do? Dumpdiggers use old maps, metal detectors, privy rods and spade shovels to unearth early American antique glass bottles, insulators, arrowheads and old coins. They love salt glazed stoneware, pottery, jugs and crocks, enameled cups, porcelain, Civil War era relics and old coins, buttons, toys and tools. They meet here to discuss torpedo bottles, saloon pipes, sodas, bitters, whisky, gingerbeers, medicines, and cobalt blue poison bottles. Every digger worth his salt has found stoneware in a farm dump, or poked about for i
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