Bill,
        Please keep me posted on your proposed glass group. Sounds like a great
idea for those of us that do alot of analysis. Thanks!
 
Paul G. Avery
Graduate Student
University of Tennessee
 
At 02:30 PM 9/15/98 -0600, you wrote:
>Paul,
>
>        I don't know how much help this will be, but the manufacturer's mark
>on the base is probably from the Armstrong Cork Co., Glass Division,
>Lancaster, PA, used from 1938-1969 (Toulouse 24-25).  The mark was
>used earlier by American Glass Works, Richmond, VA, and Paden City,
>WV, 1908-1935 (Toulouse 23-23).
>
>Toulouse, Bottle Makers and Their Marks, 1971, Thomas Nelson, New
>York.
>
>        The "Federal Law Prohibits. . ." warning did not begin until the end
>of Prohibition, so the bottle was probably made by Armstrong.  *Most*
>glass houses were embossing the year that bottles were made (at least
>beverage bottles--sodas, milks, beer, liquor) by the early 1940s.
>That makes the 48 a likely candidate for the year the bottle was
>manufactured (1948).
>
>        Hope this may be of some small help.
>
>        Some of us are trying to put together a glass group to answer
>questions such as this.  Are you interested?
>
>Bill Lockhart
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