Boomtown Saloons: Archaeology And History In Virginia City

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2.2. Piper’s Opera House, ca. 1877–1880 46 2.3. Boston Saloon at the southwest corner of D and Union Streets, 1875 48 2.4. Building that once held O’Brien and Costello’s Saloon and Shooting Gallery, 1967 49 2.5. Three sets of double doors at Piper’s Old Corner Bar 51 3.1. Charred-wood floorboards from the Boston Saloon 56 3.2 and 3.3. 1854 U.S. 21/2–dollar gold piece from the Boston Saloon 57 3.4. Iron pipe used for the Boston Saloon’s gaslight system 59 3.5. Gaslight fixture used in the Boston Saloon 60 3.6. A brass star with affixed plaster from Piper’s Old Corner Bar 62 3.7. Wallpaper remnants from the remains of Piper’s Old Corner Bar 63 3.8. Aquarium or curio items, including shell, crab claw, and coral fragments 65 3.9. Brass bale seal with a double-headed dragon and lyre from the Hibernia Brewery 67 3.10. Two modified coins from the Boston Saloon 68 3.11. Chinese coin from the Ching Dynasty, 1644–1911, from the Boston Saloon 68 4.1. Dark green wine or champagne bottle 75 4.2. Stoneware ale bottles 75 4.3. Glass fragment from a Gordon’s Gin bottle from the Boston Saloon 76 4.4. Corroded remnants of a faucet from the Boston Saloon 78 4.5. Faucets from Piper’s Old Corner Bar 78 4.6. Glass decanter stoppers from O’Brien and Costello’s Saloon and Shooting Gallery 79 x x Illustrations 4.7. Bottle embossed with “hostetter’s ess. of jamaica ginger” from the Boston Saloon 80 4.8. Italian bitters bottle from the Boston Saloon 81 4.9. Aqua soda water bottle fragments embossed with “cantrell & cochrane” 83 4.10. Stoneware mineral water jugs from Piper’s Old Corner Bar 84 4.11. Close-up of stoneware mineral water jug seal, “selters nassau” 85 4.12. Large decorative stoneware water filter from Piper’s Old Corner Bar 86 4.13. Pig skull sawed so that it would sit flat on a platter 92 4.14. Oyster shells from the Boston Saloon 94 4.15. Label embossed on the Tabasco bottle base 96 4.16. Tabasco bottle from the Boston Saloon 96 5.1. Glass tumbler with a faceted base 100 5.2. Beer mug handle with burn damage from the Boston Saloon 101 5.3. Crystal goblet discovered at the Boston Saloon 102 5.4. Crystal stemware goblet and stem fragments from the Boston Saloon 102 5.5. Crystal stemware from Piper’s Old Corner Bar 103 5.6. Stack of ceramic plates from the Boston Saloon excavation 104 5.7. Mended stack of ceramic plates from the Boston Saloon 105 5.8. Yellowware serving bowl from the Boston Saloon 106 5.9. Stoneware crock from the Boston Saloon 107 5.10. Stoneware crock lid 108 6.1. White clay tobacco pipe fragments 113 6.2. Close-up view of the plain, white clay tobacco pipe style shows the mark “t.d.” 114 6.3. Red clay tobacco pipe bowls from the Boston Saloon 116 Illustrations x xi 6.4. Red clay pipe bowl fragment from O’Brien and Costello’s Saloon and Shooting Gallery 116 6.5. Meerschaum pipe bowl (front view) from Piper’s Old Corner Bar 118 6.6. Meerschaum pipe bowl (side view) from Piper’s Old Corner Bar 118 6.7. Amber pipe stem mouthpiece from the Hibernia Brewery 119 6.8. Bennington-like spittoon from Piper’s Old Corner Bar 119 6.9. Dice made of bone from the Hibernia Brewery 121 6.10. Poker chip fragments from the Boston Saloon 121 6.11. Cribbage board from Piper’s Old Corner Bar 122 6.12. Burned and slightly calcined domino fragment from the Boston Saloon 123 6.13. Black glass buttons from O’Brien and Costello’s Saloon and Shooting Gallery 125 6.14. Brass garter clasps from the Hibernia Brewery 127 6.15. Women’s clothing accoutrements from the Boston Saloon 129 6.16. Dress beads from the Boston Saloon 130 7.1. Overview of the Boston Saloon site 139 7.2. Stoneware crock shard 141 7.3. White clay tobacco pipe stem 143 8.1. Munitions from O’Brien and Costello’s Saloon and Shooting Gallery 148 8.2. Mesopotamian cylinder-seal imprint 151 8.3...