Lost & Found

[Left] Wooden crate of packaged Warner’s Log Cabin Extract bottles sealed up since 1887. Purchased from Dave Olson at the ChattanoogaNorth Georgia Antique Bottle Show.

– Michael Seeliger

[Right] This amazing example of an extremely rare Callahan’s Old Cabin Whiskey was dug on the north side of Pittsburgh about two blocks from where his saloon (Hugh Callahan) was located.

– Chip Cable

[Below] Here is a pair of glass “sandals” that are actually flasks. They were excavated as grave goods from a Roman burial in Cologne, Germany, third century AD. – Eric McGuire

[Below] A delicate porcelain bowl, measuring under 4.5 inches in diameter, sold for more than $25 million during a bumper week of Chinese art sales in Hong Kong. Described by auction house Sotheby’s as “highly important,” the antique hails from a rare group of ceramics decorated at Beijing’s imperial workshops in the 18th century. The bowl was produced during the time of the Yongzheng Emperor, who ruled China from 1722 to 1735 (though the enamel was likely painted shortly after his death). It is part of a tradition known as “falangcai,” or “foreign colors,” a name given to porcelain originating from the imperial kilns of Jingdezhen but enameled by artisans in Beijing’s Forbidden City. Once part of a pair, the item was first recorded in a collection assembled by Shanghai-based shipping merchant Captain Charles Oswald Liddell in the late 19th century. The two bowls were split up in 1929, when they were each sold for £150 (amounting to just over £7,600, or $9,400, in today’s money). The bowl’s “twin” is held now at the British Museum in London – Sotheby’s

[Above Right] Archaeologists in China have found the remains of what may be the world’s oldest known flush toilet. Broken parts of the 2,400-year-old lavatory, as well as a bent flush pipe, were unearthed last summer by a research team among ancient palace ruins in the Yueyang archaeological site in the central city of Xi’an, according to Chinese state media. Described by researchers as a “luxury object,” the toilet was thought to have been located inside the palace, with a pipe leading to an outdoor pit, according to state-owned China Daily. Liu Rui, a researcher at the Institute of Archeology at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, who was part of the excavation team, told state media the toilet would have likely been reserved for high-ranking officials during the Warring States Period (475-221 BC) and the later Han Dynasty (206 BCAD 220). He added that servants would likely have poured water into the toilet bowl every time it was used.

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