Got out today at a late 19th century kiln site...
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I found a buckle, a whats-it and a bottle. The bottle is in really good shape-- what looks like stains on it are actually air bubbles from when the bottle was made. The Hanley company was around between 1905 and 1910. The bottle is a whiskey bottle, found at the foot of a redwood tree near the kiln.
It's a good site, if anyone is in the Santa Clara/Santa Cruz area and is curious I can take you there!
It's a good site, if anyone is in the Santa Clara/Santa Cruz area and is curious I can take you there!
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Hanley Mercantile was one of a number of very successful wholesale liquor dealers doing business out of San Francisco after the city was rebuilt, subsequent to the great Earthquake and fire of 1906. The bottle that you found is generally referred to as a "tanker"; more properly called a full quart rectangle. This example is #357 in Western Whiskey Bottles 4th edition, and dates ca. 1906 - 1918. It was originally fitted with a Riley patent hard rubber (actually ebonite) inside screw stopper which was embossed with Hanley's name. I've got one in my collection with the original label for Hanley Rye. Rye was a very popular style of whiskey during that period. As far as value goes, they both book and sell for $10 ~ - $20~, if damage and stain free and if fitted with the correct stopper.
A nice find! Congrats!
<< <i>you have some very old finds there! your big iron piece is an ox shoe, it could date to around the 1850's. >>
An ox shoe! I never would have guessed. Thanks for the info! I was telling my roomie on here that you knew more about relics in this area than any man alive, Demodigger.