Went for our normal walk around the neighborhood yesterday and finally decided to rummage through some of the rusty tins, broken glass and stoneware that you can find scattered among the sage brush. Initially, we just took them as being the typical trash you can find in any undeveloped area located near a town but, upon closer inspection, I noticed that the tins had a soldered plug on top which typically points to the fact that they are really old. Most cans that have this feature were made back in the mid 1800's and so we started looking more closely at the broken porcelain in the area as well until we could find specimens we could identify. Two of the pieces we found had the words "Greenwood..." and "Trenton..." impressed into the base and one had the words "...Ironstone China" that we could still make out.
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After doing some research, I found that the first two pieces were in fact made by Greenwood Pottery located in Trenton, New Jersey and the only time they had their name impressed into the base of their table ware like this was back in 1886! The remaining piece turned out to be made by "Royal Ironstone China" which was originally a British company founded back in the 18th century but, this specific piece featuring a crest containing a crown and unicorn logo with the type on top was in fact made in Trenton, New Jersey by the Cook Pottery Company back in 1894.
While the area we live in is part of the Eagle Valley and a point where emigrants stopped at as a part of their journey on the California Trail, it's hard not to think that the tins we found may have been trash left behind by these early settlers. However, the broken bits of China were most likely deposited after the big Nevada silver rush of 1859. Regardless, all of it is a ton of fun to find especially being that they can be found just down the street from us. :yup:
After doing some research, I found that the first two pieces were in fact made by Greenwood Pottery located in Trenton, New Jersey and the only time they had their name impressed into the base of their table ware like this was back in 1886! The remaining piece turned out to be made by "Royal Ironstone China" which was originally a British company founded back in the 18th century but, this specific piece featuring a crest containing a crown and unicorn logo with the type on top was in fact made in Trenton, New Jersey by the Cook Pottery Company back in 1894.
While the area we live in is part of the Eagle Valley and a point where emigrants stopped at as a part of their journey on the California Trail, it's hard not to think that the tins we found may have been trash left behind by these early settlers. However, the broken bits of China were most likely deposited after the big Nevada silver rush of 1859. Regardless, all of it is a ton of fun to find especially being that they can be found just down the street from us. :yup:
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