Merry Christmas 🎄 

Base:

• (L) Baltimore Glass Works Resurgam Flask GXIII-53: c. 1860s - 1870s
• (R) Chapman's Maryland Glass Works Soldier & Dancer GXIII-11: c. 1860s-1870s

Trunk:

• John Clark Fells Point: c. 1850s

Star:

• Baltimore Glass Works Star Ink - c. 1840s - 1860s

that's pretty cool - where do you find these?

The two flasks came out of different auctions.

The John Clark soda came from a privy in Upper Fells Point a few weeks ago. And the pipes, marbles, and stoppers also came from privies all over the city.

I'm surprised there'd be that many pipe bowls around.

Very awesome

I think cheap clay pipes were almost disposable.

Also, as i recall, people would break off the tip of the stem every few smokes, as it got groddier and groddier. Eventually they'd break off so much the pipe became unusable. Then down into the privy it would go.

Check out his youtube channel; he does privy digs. Very very cool

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Abv-oJvfWSQ

wow this is awesome - I'm fascinated by B-more history. thanks!

What a strange place to find history!

thanks. following your channel now! Any insight on why people through glass containers and other stuff down into the privy? Were they also used as garbage receptacles? Did they ever have to shovel them out? I can't imagine a hole in the ground to smell very good or be hygenic.

You nailed it. There wasn’t public trash pickup before the mid 1900s. So what petter place to toss your trash then a hole you already had outback that would periodically be cleaned out.

It wasn’t great but as long as you didn’t go down there yourself and kept up the maintenance it would have been tolerable

When they tore down the old dairy on Fleet Street they exposed several privy’s and old brick kilns- a bunch of stuff was found- cool stuff

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So cool! Do you have any more info on the white balls at the bottom? I found one of those in my yard when I had my concrete removed this summer. They are painted with crisscrossing black stripes.

Oh really? The little bars are clay marbles. Is the concrete still up?!

Oh nice, thanks! the only thing I’d found that looked similar were Native American stone game balls but that seemed unlikely. All the concrete is gone—I replaced it with pea gravel over landscape cloth and planting beds. Stuff still sometimes comes up when it rains (mostly marbles, glass, ceramics, and plastic clothes pins).

One of the stuff that I see is a spark plug thing where if you put the spark plug in it would have power and water control someone’s having a bad day because they lost the spark plug collector what I’m saying is if you have an engine and there’s a spark plug thing like the little plastic thing that has like the cord to connecting to the spark plug that thing is cut and the engine is dead