Follow-Up on Oyster cans.
This is a very interesting webb page. However, the oyster cans I have seen
on 19th century
Western mining towns are different. They are rectangular with the label
embossed right into
the metal front of the can and they stand up quite well to the passage of time.
Does someone on the list have some images for our colleague? Many
archaeologists
working in the West must have encountered these cans as oysters were quite
popular
and, at least some times, came in cans rather than being shipped fresh in
barrels. With the
cans there would be no oyster shells.
At 10:23 AM 4/2/2003 -0600, you wrote:
>Try: http://members.tripod.com/wyeriverantiques/id18.htm
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>Were there cans for oysters that are unique to the product and easily
>recognizable at 19th century mining camp archaeological sites?
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>Perhaps someone could post pictures of such cans?
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>Carl Barna
>Regional Historian
>BLM Colorado State Office
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