well heres the start of my sign and other associated items diary hope you enjoy....

ill update it to the present day over the next few days, these pics/stories below are off my bduk diary.

 bit of background music  

 

29th may 2008

"but the best is yet to come as my mates got wind of a new undug chelt tip, he went for a dig today and it looks very promosing, its about early 20's to early 30's. he got 2 buckets of bottles and this ginger 

but the best find he got was this"

 

he got 2 of them but the other is unfortunaly in even worse condition, so he gave it to me for my lotty shed were both going there on tuesday when he is back and recoverd from the wichwood festival.    i cant wait.

more too come next week..........     

little did i know what was about to come on the next visit

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3rd june 08,    

anouther day i will never forget

it was my lucky day again today. i got these two lovelly enamels    from the new untuched location

my mate got the ones on the floor and i got the 2 were holding, i gave him the one he is holding tho (me on left & rich on right) as he was kind enouth to tell me about the location. 

  

the tips quite late and small but its jammed, and untouched..................  untill now . . . . . . . .???

june 2008

went down to bournmouth for 3 weeks heres a few things i saw

 

10th july 08

i got these enamels off my sparky mate today,

 

 

january 2009

went to stroud to on a trip relating to some modern day signage lol

shhhhhhush!!

 

 january 2009

Went for a walk and found a few cars but unfortunatly couldnt fit them in my backpack so i left em there 

 

 

febuary 2009

 

 

march 09

 

 

april 2009 

 

 

 may 2009

 got this beauty from the booty!

 

june 2009

 

 those bloody vandalistic cricketers

 

 

august 2009

...and i got this lovely enamel from a mate of mine who popped down the allopment

 

 august 2009

went to have a look at a load of signs, there were some loverly locals too... 

 

september 2009

 

 

im well chuffed with this enamel as i call my self "Bottle boy ben" so a BBB enamel is just

 september 09

got a large collection of oil bottles that had been collected by a mechanic years ago, there was about 8 or 9 differnt ones/sizes heres a few

 

Love that pic of it in the ground!

 cheers al

november 09

got this off a mate for a reasonable price.

 

 november 2009

a mate dug a bitter sweet collection of three differnt enamels! this being the best condition and the others being even worse!

december 09

heres a quick vid of a nice castrol carry crate i found on the way back from the night before at al's place, good laff cheers al

 

 

 

december 2009

my mate rich dug this beauty up! when he went on a dig without me, the way it goes i surpose. lol

 

january 2010

a mate got this out an abandoned chelt garden allong with a bow fronted lyons that i cant find the pic of at the mo

january 2010

not quite sure when i got these signs but i think they was both in january, the castrol came out the river about 6 months before i got me hands on it! 

oh yeah heres anouther one in got in january

january 2010

these beauties were dug up by anouther mate they were thankfully put under a wash pan all them years ago by the bloke who dumped em. so didnt get broken by the compaction of the soil.

 

 heres a quick vid of the place we got them from....

good stuff ben

 

cheers mate, ill catch up with you and andy soon hopefully.

Posted By chelt original on 10 Jun 2010 01:05 PM

 

cheers mate, ill catch up with you and andy soon hopefully.

 

look forward to that ,i can see a messy national

 

Bring the messy National on!!

That Landau is a corker. I can get a few other telegraph pole enamels if the collector is interested.

Cheers

Al.

messy national! i only just survived the last one! i still cant wait tho

those signs are in a museum btw al, next time your this way were go there if you want

 

I should come down to Als again and we can get out for a dig / drink

Welcome anytime guys!

I have a few tips we could have a go at.

Al.

Great stuff Ben. It's nice to see some creative posting on the site. I look forward to more.

Vlad

 Hi chelt original,

 Great postings. Have just seen your B B B enamel and I have posted the mirror version of this company. Thought you might be interested to know that the BBB  company is registered as the oldest briar pipemaking name in the UK having been first recorded as a British trademark in 1876, the year the Registration of Trade Marks became law although this company was manufacturing from 1847. The initials BBB represented "Blumfelds Best Briars" after Louis Blumfeld who headed up the company for many years. Mind you I quite like your definition "Bottled Boy Ben"!! (Just thought you would like to know!!)

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