Macaco
Well-Known Member
Hello All,
I went for a dig on Saturday.
Found a pretty nice whiskey flask. /THEO. GIER/WINE CO./OAKLAND CAL./
Interesting background about Theodore Gier, his wine and liquor business,
http://pre-prowhiskeymen....whiskey-into-wine.html
A few more keepers,
Owl Drug Store
/Celso/TRADE MARK/
/Chester F. Darling/& Co./DRUGGISTS/OAKLAND, CALIF./
I had never found a Celso bottle before. I did some research. Celso was a California made hangover cure likely meant to compete against Bromo Seltzer. I found two Ads for Celso. One from 1911 in The San Francisco Call. The other one was in, of all things, a 1910 cook book from the 'Corona Club', 1911
1910
'Dirty Larry' dug a nice Duffy Malt Whisky bottle,
I dug up some doodads that looked interesting. This one appears to be a crucible for melting metal,
This one is a bronze weight. Could it have been part of a clock?
A Lilliputian coffee mug,
This thing,
A spooky doll head,
And this thing. Any ideas?
Lastly I want to sneak in two bottles that I found on previous digs last month but didn't post.
Here's a flask,
And an oyster cocktail jar with the most detailed embossed location I have ever seen on a bottle. The only thing they left out was which way to twist the door knob,
/WILLAPA OYSTER/COCKTAILS/284 NATOMA ST/NEAR 4TH/S.F./
Thanks for looking,
Steve
I went for a dig on Saturday.
Found a pretty nice whiskey flask. /THEO. GIER/WINE CO./OAKLAND CAL./
Interesting background about Theodore Gier, his wine and liquor business,
http://pre-prowhiskeymen....whiskey-into-wine.html
A few more keepers,
Owl Drug Store
/Celso/TRADE MARK/
/Chester F. Darling/& Co./DRUGGISTS/OAKLAND, CALIF./
I had never found a Celso bottle before. I did some research. Celso was a California made hangover cure likely meant to compete against Bromo Seltzer. I found two Ads for Celso. One from 1911 in The San Francisco Call. The other one was in, of all things, a 1910 cook book from the 'Corona Club', 1911
1910
'Dirty Larry' dug a nice Duffy Malt Whisky bottle,
I dug up some doodads that looked interesting. This one appears to be a crucible for melting metal,
This one is a bronze weight. Could it have been part of a clock?
A Lilliputian coffee mug,
This thing,
A spooky doll head,
And this thing. Any ideas?
Lastly I want to sneak in two bottles that I found on previous digs last month but didn't post.
Here's a flask,
And an oyster cocktail jar with the most detailed embossed location I have ever seen on a bottle. The only thing they left out was which way to twist the door knob,
/WILLAPA OYSTER/COCKTAILS/284 NATOMA ST/NEAR 4TH/S.F./
Thanks for looking,
Steve
]As to the clock weight, I'd go with fish net or other fishing related heavy thing.It's all really cool stuff!
