John Wayne Rosso
Collector and Appreciator of Fine Things
Plaquemine, La.
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The Dumps Along the Mississippi River
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Historical Artifacts |
Okay this, I think is a top to a, I think Lea & Perrin's Sauce steak sauce bottle. They are pretty
regular. Then you find your marbles and you got your a, this is not too, too old. This might be
a hot sause bottle. This must have been a Mabeline or perfume deal, you know, with eyelashes
and stuff. They had another part to this Aaron. In fact I've got the whole thing at my house. I'd
have to dig it up, but a... this is unique. The blues... and another thing, Aaron,
also I've got to
comment on, you'll find a lot of Milk-of-Magnesia, Phillips Milk-of-Magnesia bottles back here.
That's the blue glass? Yeah, the blue glass.
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Historical Artifacts |
Here you got some pieces of -- I guess its a sugar bowl. When I was a kid my mother had one like
this and its got a leaf, it looks like a Canadian leaf, it could be an elm leaf I don't know. Then you
got odd pieces of glass sometime I can't explain them because of my age. I guess a fellow a little
bit older than me could actually tell you exactly what all this is all about. Then you got a green
glass, I can remember People's Drug Store pharmacists once upon a time this is the color they
used on their drug bottles.
To make a long story short I think again this is a unique place to bring people. I brought a few
kids back here and showed them how to do things and they were interested. Of course they
grabbed everything they could see because they thought everything on the ground was real old.
Which was amazing because when you're young and you're green and don't know what's going
on, you just don't have the technology on what's really, really valuable or what's really old.
That's normal, I mean, you can't say a kid is stupid, because that's the wrong phrase. You just
gotta put-in a little time, a little time for doing this, and he'll a, or she, can learn. All this was old
cups and old saucers in the old days. If we had anybody a little bit older than me I think we could
really explain a lot more of this glass.
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