There is a piece entitled "Stoneware Bottle chron & use" in the Histarch 
archives for 1998 by Michiel Bartels (now city archaeologist for 
Deventer) which is useful and probably reproduced in the book *Steden 
in* *Scherven.* Several contemporary genever manufactures now use 
revivalist stoneware bottles. In the evictions of anarchists from 
buildings in Amsterdam a few years back I understand a cellar full of 
stoneware bottles was ussd as ammunition agaist the riot police.


paul


Carl Steen wrote:

> 
>In a message dated 5/3/2006 12:43:49 PM Eastern Standard Time,  
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>I don't  have an end-date for 
>stoneware, but probably by the end of WWI everyone  had converted to glass - 
>except for some extruded knock-offs from the  1960s You can always play the 
>odds: jugs for the water trade were made by  the millions; those for the gin 
>trade, by the tens of thousands. If all  the marks indicate quick and dirty 
>mass production, you greatly increase  the odds of having a water jug.
>
>Robert C.  Leavitt
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>
>Robert - thanks for an excellent answer. I have one thing to add. These  
>bottles are still in use, so there is no end date, and since the tradition is  
>continuing I'm not sure its fair to call them "Knock offs." I bought bottles of  
>Hoogstratten and St Sebastians beer from Belgium at my local beer store a 
>couple  of years ago, and I still see them from time to time... The Hoogstratten 
>was a  tall, .75 liter cork seal bottle and the other was more squat, .5  
>liter, with a lightning stopper closure. Both are salt glazed with a brown  wash 
>exterior. Interior is glazed, but not slipped. And the beer was good too.  Carl 
>Steen
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