Mitzi,
 
This does not preclude a long use for the bottle. How long was your Butte  
Chinatown site occupied and what is the possibility of re-use by the people 
who  created the deposit? The Chinese fishing camp adjacent to the whaling 
company at  Ballast Point re-cycled scrap metal, old ceramics, and old 
bottles, as recycling  was part of their frontier experience. 
 
Ron May
Legacy 106, Inc.
 
 
In a message dated 8/6/2009 1:00:09 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,  
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I am  confident that the 1875 date for the "six to one gallon" bottle is  
too
early.  We recently found a piece of one at Butte Chinatown and  the
associated deposit post-dates 1901, as I recall.

Mitzi  Rossiullon
Renewable Technologies, Inc.
Butte, MT

On Thu, Aug 6,  2009 at 1:11 PM, Phil Glover <[log in to unmask]>  
wrote:

> Kendra,
>  The collection I am working on had a  bottle similar if not identical to
> the one
> you have embossed  "six to one gallon" on its base. We found a reference 
on
> page 616 of  "Behind the Seawall: Historical Archaeology along the San
> Francisco  Waterfront" by Pastron et al (1981). They identified it as an
>  export
> lager bottle made by W.M. McCully & Co. of Pittsburg  reportedly from 
1875.
> Info on W.M. McCully & Co can be found on pg  351 of "Bottle Makers and
> Their
> Marks" by Toulouse, which will  give you dates of 1841-1886. Hope this was
> helpful.
>  Cheers,
> Phil  Glover
>