 AG100
In the summer of 2007, I went to visit my friend Mark Castagnoli's place on the Fraser River in Yale BC. Yale is an historic gold rush town and in the 1860's had 10,000 prospectors and miners living there. Yale burned to the ground at laest twice and every time they would take horse-drawn scrapers and shove all the burned remains over the river bank. Consequently, a lot of the town's refuse and remains ended up being buried in the river's cutbank. This spring we had a high flood on the Fraser and it scoured the edges and exposed a lot of this 19th century debris. Not suprisingly most of it consisted of broken liquour, champagne and beer bottles. A lot of the glass, having been bureid for almost 150 years has acquired a fantastic opalescence. I collected some of this and thought it could be cut into interesting gems. This is such a piece. It is a fragment of a Heidsieck Champagne bottle. SOLD
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