Yes, there are a pair from the Van Sweringen site, one with it's mount or should I say "vices" in place. They can be seen at
http://www.stmaryscity.org/VirtualExhbit/ordinary.htm

Until the advent of round, free-blown bottles after about 1650, case bottles are the only type of glass bottles we find. They continue in use for quite a while and are particularly fit for ship board use.

Silas

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From: "Mary C. Beaudry" <[log in to unmask]> 

> Oh, and I am pretty sure one with screw threads and/or cap was found at Van 
> Swearingen site at St Mary's City?? Is that right Silas? 
> 
> On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 1:47 PM, Mary C. Beaudry wrote: 
> 
> > Bly, 
> > 
> > If none of the pewter screw caps for case bottles have been found in 
> > English contexts, are you positing that the abundance of them at Jamestown 
> > had something to do with the way the project was supplied/outfitted (e.g., 
> > purchases from Amsterdam warehouses or the like?)? 
> > 
> > Mary 
> > 
> > On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 2:26 PM, Bly Straube wrote: 
> > 
> >> Mo, 
> >> Those pewter screw caps (called 'vices' in the C17) are a 
> >> Dutch phenomenon. Hugh Willmott (Early post-medieval vessel 
> >> glass in England c. 1500-1670, CBA Research Report 132, 
> >> 2002) claims that not one has been found in England. We have 
> >> lots of them from our excavations of James Fort, established 
> >> by the English in 1607 in Jamestown, Virginia. 
> >> Bly 
> >> 
> >> Beverly A. (Bly) Straube, FSA 
> >> Senior Archaeological Curator 
> >> Jamestown Rediscovery 
> >> 1365 Colonial Parkway 
> >> Jamestown, VA 23081 
> >> 757 229-4997 x103 
> >> 
> >> -----Original Message----- 
> >> From: HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On 
> >> Behalf Of Maureen Brown 
> >> Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2008 12:52 PM 
> >> To: [log in to unmask] 
> >> Subject: Case Bottle & Pewter Screw Cap Refs? 
> >> 
> >> Hello everyone, 
> >> 
> >> 
> >> 
> >> Since my companion, Marybeth, had such a great response to 
> >> her request 
> >> for faience references from everyone, I thought I'd make a 
> >> small request 
> >> to the group as well. 
> >> 
> >> 
> >> 
> >> I'm researching glass from the La Belle shipwreck, which was 
> >> one of the 
> >> La Salle's, the French explorer's vessels that wrecked on 
> >> the Texas 
> >> coast in 1686. The majority of glass recovered includes 
> >> three sizes of 
> >> case bottles and associated pewter screw caps, similar to 
> >> the ones found 
> >> on several VOC (Dutch East Indiamen) merchant vessels. In 
> >> addition, 
> >> there were a few onion bottles and hour glasses/sand clocks 
> >> found as 
> >> well. I'm interested in references, information, and/or 
> >> comparative 
> >> underwater and terrestrial sites that have found 17th - 18th 
> >> century 
> >> case bottles and/or pewter screw caps/tops. 
> >> 
> >> 
> >> 
> >> Thanks a bunch and hope everyone is cooler than us in 
> >> Austin! 
> >> 
> >> Mo 
> >> 
> >> 
> >> 
> >> Maureen Brown 
> >> 
> >> Collections Manager/Archeologist III 
> >> 
> >> Archeology Division 
> >> 
> >> Texas Historical Commission 
> >> 
> >> P.O. Box 12276 
> >> 
> >> Austin, TX 78701-2276 
> >> 
> >> (512) 927-7876 office 
> >> 
> >> (512) 927-9797 fax 
> >> 
> >> [log in to unmask] 
> >> 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> >