CanadianBottles
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Yeah they're widely referred to as opium bottles by collectors, but they just don't make sense for that use considering what opium actually looks like - it's a thick tarry substance that you'd never be able to get out of a bottle like that. I think it's just one of those persistent collecting myths.Someone needs to tell the Joss House museum because they think those are opium bottles! I actually cleaned them- citric acid works so well, I was happy to see. They were so Grodi that I didn’t even know there was some embossing under the dirt! Really I am waiting to find the gold the Chinese gold miners had stashed around out there- when they were so rudely ran out in the middle of the night and either they made it, or were killed, right there, by the white miners, in 1860. Nice to find a massacre like that went down on property ya own! I never have nightmares, except for when I sleep out there- and that was before I discovered it’s history.
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Wow that's terrible to find out that you live by the site of a massacre! I've heard of a number of abuses like that against the Chinese in the mid-19th century in the western US. I'm pretty sure that you had Chinese miners returning to your property more recently than that though, because your Chinese bottles are exactly like the ones that we used to find in late 19th and early 20th century sites in BC. I dug one with a long neck like yours from a 30s dump in fact. Have you ever metal detected the site? There's a good chance that you have 17th or 18th century Chinese coins waiting to be found out there, they're commonly found around areas that had Chinese populations in the 19th century because they were carried as good luck charms.