The Santa Cruz Eagle soda works bottle is a 4 piece mold bottle. I have had a few in the last 40 years. I think they are rated very scarce. They sell for between 100 and 200 dollars depending on condition, and color. There were quite a few soda works in Santa Cruz in the 90's, along with the...
In my experience, dig to the bottom of the newer layer, get a good 4', and 6' probe and search out the entire area with the 4', then the 6' probes. If it is a dump, it should have a 4 to 6' at the most, dead layer, with older dump there.
If this is an intercity dump, it could go 20' or more to...
Here is one of the rarest western pots. It stands about 3 1/2" tall. He was in S.F. from 53 to 62, then he opened business in Virginia City, Nv. Sadly, it has been promised to the other digger for first right of refusal.
The ceramic ones are called geometric china marbles. They range from the early 1850's and throughout. We don't see the shinny geometrics until the 1870's.
I have never seen a china with a dog before. The sulfides have animals in them though. The glass ones are 60's and 70's, there are a couple...