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| This is completely off topic but I'm so fascinated with something I found this weekend! We went coon hunting Saturday night and while we were waiting for the dogs to tree I was off in my own world shining my light into the creek to look for creek creatures and whatever I could find. I came across a small piece of glass and seeing that it had some writing on it, I kept it. This morning my sister and I looked up some information about it and it's made by Homer Laughlin and was a piece of Georgian china from 1915! I just think that's so interesting! I was told no one's lived in that holler for years and years. I got this liking for antiques and such from my mother who usually decorates with neat things she's found. Now I wanna see your "vintagey" treasures 
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Location: East Texas | my daughter found a 2 inch porcelain doll when she was little at a play ground and we have found lots of broken pottery pieces at old home sites. I will have to say the best find was a 1927 coke bottle that my mother dug up and cleaned. It sold for $125 on ebay. |
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Location: In Ky following Barrel Races & Walker hounds. | I went and photographed this yesterday... Its an old Chevy Apache truck out in the woods we hunt... I had never seen it close up so Dustin and I decided to go check it out with my camera!
Dustin sat the old coke bottle up there, I like how it made it look like someone was working on the truck, sat their coke down and left it....
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | BlazeFlameHarley - 2014-04-28 4:58 PM I went and photographed this yesterday... Its an old Chevy Apache truck out in the woods we hunt... I had never seen it close up so Dustin and I decided to go check it out with my camera!
Dustin sat the old coke bottle up there, I like how it made it look like someone was working on the truck, sat their coke down and left it....
I love these pictures Sarah, you have such a good eye for picture taken. Thats so cool how the trees grew up around it. |
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Location: In the Hills of Texas | Sarrah...you have been getting some really cool pictures. You do indeed have a great eye for photography!  |
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Location: North MS | I was working in Humphrey County, MS in the middle of an area with the potential to flood during the wet season. I think it was August or September when I was there. I had the unfortunate incident to get stung by a wasp, jerk my tape measure and ended up cutting my finger open almost to the bone. I high-tailed it out of there and had to return the next day with an assistant to complete my tree inventory. The next day after nearly stepping on one cottonmouth and seeing three more I managed to complete my inventory and ended up finding a rather old coke bottle. I took it home since my husband collects them and found that it was bottled in Belzoni, MS. The facility was located just a few miles down the road from where I was and the old building still stands. I don't know how old it actually is, but cool to find an old bottle near the factory. |
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Location: Washington | Heck I find a lot, but I have to pay for them.... |
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Location: Carpenter, WY | I'm the vintage find queen lol. Collected vintage western pattern themed China and dishes for year s. One item though I found in a streamed many, many years ago I wish I could find more info on. Definitely hand made |
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | fatchance - 2014-04-28 5:50 PM Heck I find a lot, but I have to pay for them....
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Location: Southeast Louisiana | I don't have any good stories of things I've found in the woods or anything like that, but I do love antiques. My favorite is an old ice box. It's the wooden kind that you would slide a block of ice into to keep the food cold. My dad rescued it out of my grandfather's barn. It was in pieces and he restored it. I love that old thing. It's special to me because, my mom actually used it when she was younger. They lost most of their old furniture in a house fire. It's amazing that I even ended up with it because my mom's from a large family. She is one of twelve.
I'm looking forward to seeing everyone's antiques and hearing more stories!
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Location: ohio-in my own little world with pretty ponies :) | My grandma had a cabinet full of glass figurines and stuff. We were going thru it the other day and found a cup and saucer and on the bottom it says "handmade by the retarded) it had a paper stuck in the cup saying it was my great great grandmas. I thought it was pretty cool....it's different that it said "handmade by the retarded" that's how you know it's old. I'm keeping it. |
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Location: Washington | All kidding aside, you will find more if you go and look. It is very common to see small pieces like this thrown in an out house. Seriously no sh it. |
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Location: My own little world :) | Haha!! This is so ironic!!!!! This evening I dug two old style washing machines out of a junk pile in a hay field so that I can plant flowers in them this spring. One is green enamel and the other one is white and it even has the wringer still attached. |
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| Oooooh I love it! Love hearing everything you all have found and those are some great pictures!!  |
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Location: Kentucky | Here is one of my wedding pictures. This was taken beside a friend's farm...we have no idea who owns the truck, but it's been sitting for years.
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Location: Gainesville, TX | If you like old stuff, you need to see my mom's house. She could open her own antique shop. |
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| I bet I would love it!! It just makes me think about how life was at that moment in time, I just wonder... |
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Location: Somewhere in the middle of nowhere | I have an old cast iron fireplace, it weighs a ton....seriously. It was in my dad's barn and he wanted it gone. My uncls also has my grandfathers old cookstop, you know, the wood burning kind, he has it on his back porch. Love those items! |
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| That's so neat!! I do too! I especially like old photographs |
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