For the medical bottle or fragment with incompete embossing, you might try
Bill Hunt's Medicine Bottle Glass Index at www.mwac.nps.gov/bottle_glass/
This database is especially good for identifying bottles with partial
embossing.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Larry Moore" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, October 25, 2004 8:00 PM
Subject: For the glass specialists


Hello all,
I'm trying to identifiy some bottle parts found in a Civil War era trash pit
in Northern VA.
Gwen Hurst and I started a paper years ago but never finished it.
She recently passed away. And I want to finish it.
All I have are her notes and a draft of her part of the paper.
Three items need additional identification, if possible.

1. a light aqua cylinder medicinal bottle with partial embossing
CO.../C. H....PROP.

2. one olive‑green black glass bottle, blown in a three‑section contact
mold. The base has a refired pontil. The bottle is embossed PATENT around
the
shoulder and ELLENVILLE GLASS WORKS around the rim of the base. Little is
known
about the Ellenville Glass Works of New York. The firm was apparently
established in 1816 in Wawasing, New York and relocated to Ellenville, New
York in 1836
(Creswick 1987:265). Any other information about it?

3. Two cylinder liquor bottles blown in Germany and embossed around the
bases.
One olive‑green black glass base is embossed (H. Heye)BREM(en) around a
refired pontil.
A second bottle base that was blown in honey‑amber black glass is embossed
H.
HEYE BREMEN around a refired pontil.  Bottle collectors report “whiskey”
bottles with this embossing on Civil War camps around Vicksburg, Mississippi
(Parks and Pasvantis 1978:97). Any other information about this embossing?

Refs.
Creswick, Alice M.
1987     The Fruit Jar Works. Volume I Listing Jars Made Circa 1820 to
1920's. Privately Published, Grand Rapids, MI.
Parks, Ken and Ken Pasvantis
1978     Civil War Bottles, Ken Parks Associates, Jackson, MS

Thanks,
Larry Moore