sodetraveler
Sr. Member
After much fruitless digging about I finally stumbled upon a good deposit of trash dating from the 1870's to 1915 
I was out carefully making my way through the poison oak when I noticed an old drinking glass sticking out of the ground. I figured that it was as good a place as any to dig a test hole, although it was only 3 feet from the edge of a cliff!
The vertical drop was only about 10 feet, but the slide underneath was another 30 feet of 60 degree slope with boulders at the bottom. A survivable fall, but escaping without broken bones would be difficult.
There was a tree right on the edge with it's roots sticking out into space, so I put my back against it and started digging up slope. More drinking glasses appeared - all broken - along with some china. Then the first bottle popped out - right on the edge! I almost lost it over the cliff, but managed to grab it just in time.
It was a small clear tooled lip medicine, nothing great, but at least I wasn't going home empty handed
The next bottle to pop out was a real keeper! A 5 oz. whiskey flask embossed "The Waldorf Cafes" - plus allot of other stuff (see the picture). It had the date 1915 clearly embossed on the front and a bit of research verified that the company was established in 1914. It's hand blown with a tooled top, so any newer and it would be machined
A couple of small ABM jars came out of the same layer, but it looked like another layer was developing about 2 feet deeper......
Suddenly there was an aqua medicine sticking out down deep and I was pleasantly surprised to find that it had an applied top and a key mold seam on the base. Too bad it wasn't embossed, but it WAS old!
I had to quit after that, but I'm going back to hit it again as soon as I'm able - maybe tonight?
I was out carefully making my way through the poison oak when I noticed an old drinking glass sticking out of the ground. I figured that it was as good a place as any to dig a test hole, although it was only 3 feet from the edge of a cliff!
The vertical drop was only about 10 feet, but the slide underneath was another 30 feet of 60 degree slope with boulders at the bottom. A survivable fall, but escaping without broken bones would be difficult.
There was a tree right on the edge with it's roots sticking out into space, so I put my back against it and started digging up slope. More drinking glasses appeared - all broken - along with some china. Then the first bottle popped out - right on the edge! I almost lost it over the cliff, but managed to grab it just in time.
It was a small clear tooled lip medicine, nothing great, but at least I wasn't going home empty handed
The next bottle to pop out was a real keeper! A 5 oz. whiskey flask embossed "The Waldorf Cafes" - plus allot of other stuff (see the picture). It had the date 1915 clearly embossed on the front and a bit of research verified that the company was established in 1914. It's hand blown with a tooled top, so any newer and it would be machined
A couple of small ABM jars came out of the same layer, but it looked like another layer was developing about 2 feet deeper......
Suddenly there was an aqua medicine sticking out down deep and I was pleasantly surprised to find that it had an applied top and a key mold seam on the base. Too bad it wasn't embossed, but it WAS old!
I had to quit after that, but I'm going back to hit it again as soon as I'm able - maybe tonight?
Like that 1915 whiskey 
jgas
