Folks

The interest in Ann Gugler's Australian bottle CD (thanks Bill 
Lockhart!), especially amongst the American historical community 
prompts me to ask questions that have niggled me often, especially when 
I'm surfing the web looking for information about bottles I've 
excavated here in Australia because often the information I require 
appears on non-Australian (web)sites.

How relevant is a study of bottles in one country to those found in 
another? Was it common that the same sorts of bottles were distributed 
worldwide? I can see possible links between items found in Australia 
and South Africa because so much of what came here (Aust.) went through 
Capetown first (sheep are the classic example), but can similar sorts 
of links between countries be found for items excavated in North 
America?

Would there be a closer link between Commonwealth countries? Would the 
same bottles be more readily found in say Canada and Australia, than in 
the United States and Australia?

Sincerely
GrahamK
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Graham Knuckey PhD
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On 05 Aug 2005, at 2:16 am, Ron May wrote:

> I think many of us would want a copy of the CD.
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> Ron May
> Legacy 106, Inc.
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