Hello fans of my privy page. Unless you have not noticed, I have been locked out of updating this page for over a year, due to my hosting provider removing the MS Frontpage extensions from their servers. FINALLY I got the time to go through this monster, over 8 thousand images and 100 thousand lines of text. Now, I must upload via FTP, so I had to delete most of the content from this web site in order to not lose my mind recoding it and removing the wonky fp extension codes that no longer worked. What you see now is somewhat of a fresh start. I have saved most of the content on my hard drive and I will recode and upload as time allows, in chunks. Thanks for tuning in !

 What's that ? Fresh digs ? YES ! There have been some fresh digs, and I have pictures and stories to post. Time Glasshopper. All I need is some time.

We are currently eyeballing some KEELER urban projects that should rival or top those of the Eastern Avenue building projects that yielded unbelievable finds. We have been on site with our hard hats, yellow vests, shovels, and rabid, balls to the wall, treasure finding attitudes and the preliminary survey turned up more promise than we had even hoped for. As much as I would like to spill the proverbial beans on this one, I must slap my own callused hand over my fat yapper for the time being, and keep the details on the down-low.

For anyone starting out in the greatest, treasurest-finding hobby in the world, check out my PDF e-book on how to do it, and also, my huge PDF e-book of 9 years worth of stories and pictures.

How to dig a privy and find stuff like this.

An 1850's quart scroll flask lies waiting for over 150 years in a soft bed of fluffy seeds

Hemingray 1858 Mason jar in cobalt blue, and an unknown pontiled colored liniment !
 

Fantastic finds await the dedicated privy digger.

Learn how with my tell-all book !!!

The complete digging journals.

Bottle Brushes are on back order. All orders that have been placed will be filled. No new orders until my supply resumes. Thank you.

2002 season journals click here.

2003 season journals click here.

2004 season journals click here.

Privy Poetry click here.

Welcome to

WWW.PRIVYDIGGER.COM

Tales of privy diggers, digging privies.

I am your host, Eddie Brater, and I invite you to ride on the wings of the ages, with me and my buds, as we journey through time. Step down through the grass encircled portal, into the time machine with us, and feel the thrill of suddenly arriving in the American 1850's.

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( November 2003)

      Eddie, in his privy digging permission getting hat.

When I wear this hat, here is what I say when they answer the door;
(Note; Shiny black walking cane with brass head not shown, but very integral to presentation)

Good afternoon my Dear Fine Gentleman. My name is Edwin George Brater the 3rd, and I have found myself standing on your porch to inquire if your interest in discovery and adventure will permit me to further explain myself. You see, I am an urban, archeo-privologist. I have had the adventurous wherewithal to have made myself an expert at recovering long lost treasures from the past in the form of early glass vessels and period artifacts circa 1800 / 1880. By way of a short yet thorough pre-examination of your dwelling and associated property, I have concluded that there is a very high likelihood that your back yard contains a small subterranean deposit of early American antiquities. For the mere permission to do so, I would like to conduct a brief examination of a particular small area within your back yard where these treasures are likely to be buried. Of course, there is no charge, other than a share of the items found. The small  3 by 4 foot area will be methodically restored to it's current state and virtually no trace of our presence will remain. We would like to avoid any and all unnecessary complications and begin immediately. Shall we proceed with the privy digging adventure ?

It's fun to dig and collect Antique Bottles. Here are the antique bottles I like to collect. antique soda bottles, squat soda bottles, antique medicine bottles, antique bitters bottles, antique poison bottles, antique black glass bottles, antique cure bottles, trade pipes, tavern pipes, reed pipes, face pipes, antique bisque doll heads, open pontil bottles, iron pontil bottles, hinge mold bottles, applied lips, bimal bottles, rolled lip bottles, antique marbles, antique fruit jars, rare bottles, old bottles, sea weed yellow ware, mocha yellow ware, worm yellow ware, saltglaze / salt glaze jugs and crocks, antique ironstone, chamber pots, cobalt slip stone ware / stoneware, Cincinnati bottles.