Bassett Creek Bottles

A few days ago I was picking up trash north of the Plymouth Bridge.  On my way home I crossed one of the bridges at Bassett Creek.  A group of kayakers were heading into the creek towards the conduit opening. As I watched them I realized that a tree was covering the entrance.  I walked over to have a closer look.

Just another storm and another downed tree in the park, but this one will be a little more difficult to clean up.

The root ball of that tree was sticking up and I could see glass shining in the hole that was created.  Years ago the creek was used as a place to dump trash so it's no surprise that there is junk down there.  The tree had just been growing on top of it all.

Most of what was visible was broken, but there were a few intact glass bottles just laying there.

I took the unbroken ones home and cleaned them up.  The taller bottle (5.5 inches) is an old Listerine bottle (Lambert Pharmacal Company) probably from the 1920's or 30's or so some folks on ebay say.  The wide short bottle in the back says Carter's 723 on the bottom and would have been an ink bottle.  The tiny cobalt bottle says Emerson Drug Company Baltimore and would have contained a headache (hangover) remedy of bromo seltzer.  The last bottle on the left says Devoe Raynolds Company 2oz and most likely contained paint.  Well, it's not worth much but it was fun to find it.

By the way, the real treasure right now in the creek is all the Jewelweed (Spotted Touch Me Nots) that are blooming along the trail.