Hills Oyster Farm Chincoteague VA 1 Gal Can Selects EUC
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Hills Oyster Farm Chincoteague VA 425 1 US Liq Gal. or 5/6 IMP. Gal Superb Example of Eastern Shore VA Oyster Farm Production Original “Selects” Oyster Lid Depicts Classic Chesapeake Bay Oyster and Fishing Boat at Sea Tin is in Very Good Condition Very limited rust along seam and rim of lid Bottom is pristine Measures 6 ¾” diameter x 7 ¼” High More on the history of Chincoteague oysters: “Without Chincoteague Bay , there would have been no oysters. Without oysters there would have been no watermen. Without watermen and their families there would have been no train, no houses, no commerce, or anything else. “The real heyday for Chincoteague oysters was during the late 1800s and very early 1900s. During this time, the boomtowns of Greenbackville and Franklin [on the mainland, across the bay from Chincoteague] thrived thanks to bivalve gold. Even though native Chincoteague oysters were gone by the 1940s due to overfishing and disease, there was a second period of economic viability that resulted from planting seed oysters. “[Oysters transplanted from the Chesapeake Bay into Chincoteague Bay] allowed them to be marketed as Chincoteague Bay and also gave them a saltier taste than oysters from other areas. Good (fat, salty and large) seaside, or salt oysters, as they were called, would rest and fatten in the Chincoteague Bay
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