I have refs to small pottery bottles etc being basket wrapped in NW eng, eg
at Burton Potteries
Cheers Phil H
 
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> From: Vivian Lea Stevens <[log in to unmask]>
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Baskets
> Date: 29 December 1998 11:31
>
> Thanks for the reply...look forward to future posts.  I just
> double-checked the OED and no answers there...will be interested to see
> what you turn up!  Good luck!
>
> VivianLea Stevens
>
> RCL wrote:
> >
> > Nothing to date.  Advert was for a German surnamed liquor distributer,
> > mineral water was a German brand.  I'd not thought of the bottles
> > themselves being basket-wrapped.  I've always placed those further
south,
> > around the Med, but...  That's why I wrote!  I've no clue!
> >
> > RCL
> >
> > At 08:21 PM 12/28/98 -0500, you wrote:
> > >...could this refer to the European custom of wrapping bottles in a
> > >wicker-like covering, like a basket?  Did you ever find an answer?
I've
> > >kept this in my inbox because I'm curious!
> > >
> > >VivianLea Stevens
> > >
> > >RCL wrote:
> > >>
> > >> I've run across an advert for bottled mineral water from 1870.  It
offers
> > >> "...200 baskets - quarts and pints - ..."  Can anyone explain
"baskets" in
> > >> this sense?  I'd infer that it's used as we would use "cases".  But
were
> > >> they really "baskets" as we know them?  And is there any way to tell
how
> > >> MANY quarts or pints to the "basket"?
> > >>
> > >> Robert C. Leavitt
> > >