Peek-A-Boo!

Since I usually make a dumping trip up north in May I wanted to show some cans as they emerged from the ground. Anybody who dumps for cans has experienced this. You are digging and see some color in the ground. It's a can! As you dig it up you wonder, is it a beer can? Is it whole? Is it a common can or a rare one? Are there more? When you're lucky you can find a can that';s not too common in good shape. So here are some pics I've taken over the past few years as I found a can peeking out from under the dirt.

A Gunther from the early to mid 1950s shows up in Virginia.

Some Rupperts from the 1950s show up in western Mass.

What a mess! But in with all the rust and glass is some color. Unfortunately they are Black Labels which are very, very common. But you can see why I sometimes joke that my hobby is digging through dirty, broken glass.

A couple cans are showing before I even dig. They were late 1950s Rupperts in upstate New York.

A 1930s Pabst Export peeks out.

From a recent trip. A peanut can, a couple very common Rheingold flats and, at the right, a Schaefer flat, all circa late 1950s.

A close-up of the Rheingolds and the Peanut can.

It's not just cans. Here is a sweet late 19th century piece of stoneware being unearthed by a friend of mine in Maryland. It was intact.