I'm from Utah. Not many bottles older than 1870's, but I have many that I found and dug. I was walking around a "ghost town" area near the salt flats about 10 years ago.
A town that was called "Gold Hill".
I took out my metal detector and was searching the weeds and sage brush for anything interesting when I got a signal. I dug up a mail tag that read "Monster and Garrison Mines, Gold Hill, Utah".
I had read in a book regarding many ghost town stories that noted a robbery at the turn of the 19th century about Gold Hill railroad being robbed by two teenagers, taking the mail bags into the nearby hills and then tearing open the mail bags. The only thing in these bags were store catalogs.
Anyway, I took this tag to an antique show and showed it to a button/tag.. collector.
He offered me 100 dollars to start with.
I still have it. I want to frame it and distplay it with the history of the robbery. I think it's a funny story.
A town that was called "Gold Hill".
I took out my metal detector and was searching the weeds and sage brush for anything interesting when I got a signal. I dug up a mail tag that read "Monster and Garrison Mines, Gold Hill, Utah".
I had read in a book regarding many ghost town stories that noted a robbery at the turn of the 19th century about Gold Hill railroad being robbed by two teenagers, taking the mail bags into the nearby hills and then tearing open the mail bags. The only thing in these bags were store catalogs.
Anyway, I took this tag to an antique show and showed it to a button/tag.. collector.
He offered me 100 dollars to start with.
I still have it. I want to frame it and distplay it with the history of the robbery. I think it's a funny story.
