Allen's posting is pretty much on the mark  --blob-top soda or beer bottle.  The time
period is a little late, but the bottle may have been curated or reused for a while
before deposition.

Thomson and Renger in the plate mold moght well be a local bottler, and the library
may help.  Another good outlet for information may be the National Bottle Museum at
Ballston Spa, New York.  I wrote them once about an elusive bottle from Albany,
New York (that we found in El Paso, Texas), and they were able to pinpoint the exact
bottle in a book written by a local collector.

Their web address is:

http://www.crisny.org/not-for-profit/nbm/

Good luck,

Bill

> First, let me thank George Miller, Allen Vegotsky and Bill Lockhart
> for their replies to my earlier query (I kicked myself hard for not
> realizing that it was an Owens bottle!).
>
> I have a new one for the bottle experts. I have a shattered bottle
> that I was able to partially reconstruct. It's clear, round in
> horizontal section, mold seams from the heel to just under the lip
> (which is a "blob" type), and has a slightly raised circular area on
> the body with the following embossing arranged to follow the interior
> curve of the circle:
>
> THOMSON & RENGER/ROCHESTER * PA/
> (the asterix stands for an embossed dot between the words on the last
> line)
>
> I haven't found any Google references and it's not in any of our
> bottle books.
>
> Although I wasn't able to reconstruct enough of the bottle to
> determine a total height, I was able to determin that the body
> dimension was 2 1/2", the bore diameter was 7/8", the lip was 3/4"
> wide, and the neck-finish height was 1". There were no distinguishable
> marks on the base.
>
> The bottle fragments were embedded in a crushed brick floor for a
> brick kiln in Leetsdale, PA. The kiln was constructed no later earlier
> than 1890 and no later than 1894. The kiln was demolished in 1901 or
> shortly thereafter, but I think the bottle may date from the
> construction due to its location in the floor.
>
> Anyone know anything about this bottle? If no one is familiar with it,
> then I guess there's an early 1890s context for future finds!
>
> Muchas Gracias,
> Andrew R. Sewell, MS, RPA
> Principal Investigator
> Historic/Industrial Archaeology
> Hardlines Design Company
> 4608 Indianola Avenue
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