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
>