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ORIGINAL: CALDIGR2
A fairly common bottle. It was the product of Martin and Charles Walsh, who along with Raymo Angelo, founded the Pioneer Soda Worksate 1719 1/2 Market Street in San Francisco in 1877 They moved to 1721 Market in 1881 and by 1884 Angelo was no longer in business with them. They moved to 1555 Mission Street in 1896. In 1897 the works was taken over by William Welch.
Prior to 1896 the bottles used by Pioneer were blob top types, with the Hutchinson style used after the 1896 move. I have dug as many as 47 examples of the various Pioneer bottles out of one pit in SF. All told there were 98 blobs and hutchs in that hole, along with dozens of SF embossed whiskies, both fifths and pumpkinseeds.
ORIGINAL: CALDIGR2
My mind is great, my body, um, not so. I can recall the exact position of bottles in pits from long, long ago. One time I was digging a little 4 footer by myself and had been doing one side while sitting on the shelf of the other. I turned to start that side and, lo and behold, I had been sitting on a green London Jockey Clubhouse Gin that was less than an inch below when I stopped to take a seat and take the other half to the bottom. The horse and rider were shined up nicely from my Levis. That cracked me up; what a []killer surprise.