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UPSIDE DOWN BOTTLES
For those of you who followed the garage-concrete rock faced construction
block discussion interesting you might also be interested in our most
recent find.
We are still excavating the garage foundation walls make of concrete
blocks. Each block has two internal holes or cavaties. On Friday we
found two whole bottle had been placed in one of these holes upside
down. The bottles(6" high) which are identical, are clear glass, medicine
form, empty but with remnants of corks still in place. The only embossed
lettering is on the base:
C - Cedar
10
MADE IN USA
The "e" in Cedar is set inside the larger "C".
Two Questions:
(1) can anyone help with the bottle identification?
(2) does anyone know of other examples of early (probably
late teens or early 1920s) 20th century traditions of builders or workers
putting such items in open spaces, especially in foundations? It may not be
magic, perhaps just a whim, but it was certainly done
on purpose.
Bob Schuyler
Robert L. Schuyler
University of Pennsylvania Museum
33rd & Spruce Streets
Philadelphia, PA l9l04-6324
Tel: (215) 898-6965
Fax: (215) 898-0657
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