Found an interesting bottle today. It has the body style of a Hutch but looks to have been sealed with a lightning stopper.
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I have this kind of Hutchinson bottle morphology going on in the display cabinet now...
I found this dark-green mineral water bottle in February 2022. It is from the Hathorn Spring of Saratoga Springs NY. It dates from 1870-1880. Applied blob. Hathorn Spring water still flows today and is said to be very high in sulphur and nasty tasting, but I don't judge.
I found a pottery shard while beachcombing on the Windward side of the island of Oahu. The piece was found on the shoreline but near a stream mouth. It appears to have some age to it, and is very different from the other shards of blue & white pottery and soda bottles I have found.
The shard...