I was finding bottles on the surface in Nevada, Utah, Arizona, and New Mexico in the sixties. The desert was filthy with them. Many were a deep purple (or yellow), but they were exposed to constant and intense Nevada ultraviolet radiation for sixty or more years. Having been an active collector...
This bottle, a "Tilley's Summum Bonum bitters" is currently in the last hours on auction with the American Bottle Auctions site https://www.rtam.com/americanbottle/cgi-bin/BIDS.CGI. American Bottle Auctions claims it is in almost perfect condition. My question is a Tilley's Summum Bonum bitters...
My grandfather worked in the Eureka mines during the early part of the twentieth century. My father was born in Eureka, and I worked in the Bergen and Trixie mines while in my teens (early 1970s). I am always looking for Eureka and regional collectibles (Payson, Spring Lake, Santaquin, Silver...
I'll go with granite. The specimen is characteristic of intrusive igneous rocks and one can identify on visual inspection the quartzite inclusions formed in concert with two distinct kinds of feldspar (plagioclase and potassium-rich potash feldspar). As for origin, I'd call your orbicular rock a...
I'm nearby. I'll be attending the Tucson Festival of Books on 15 March 2020 as a presenter. I have been digging bottle since 1968, founded a nonprofit with regard to privy digging, and have excavated hundreds of privies.