Hi all.  An amazing thread yall have going.  So many on-line sources, 
and Ebay, too.  I was impressed the bottle seller admitted both that 
the specimen was dug and was deliberately irradiated.  No shame 
whatsoever, and here I thought irradiating or otherwise changing 
colors of old glass (cf. insulators) was all hidden away.  Next, some 
expert modern knapper will show pride at making Sandia points or 
claim credit for all those "Clovis caches."  Good thing we historical 
archeologists still only believe It's True because we actually dug it up.

At 01:40 PM 10/8/2007, you wrote:
>That is the same one (form) as shown in Zumwalt, pg 191 (that I had told
>Jake about in my reply to him).
>I knew this bottle was too purple to be 'natural'... it has been
>irradiated...  Several eBay sellers are doing this to their bottles...to
>make them more appealing/prettier I guess.
>
>Too bad people are still perpetuating the story (myth) that the decline
>of manganese use was due to the war in 1914...cutting off supply from
>Germany.
>
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: HISTORICAL
> >ARCHAEOLOGY
> >[mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> >On Behalf Of Bob Skiles
> >Sent: Monday, October 08,
> >2007 9:42 AM
> >To: [log in to unmask]
> >Subject: Re: Bottle ID help
> >
> >A similar, but larger (6
> >...

Leslie C. "Skip" Stewart-Abernathy, Ph.D.
Arkansas Archeological Survey
Winthrop Rockefeller Institute
Petit Jean Mountain
1 Rockefeller Drive
Morrilton, AR 72110
501 727-6250