Hello,
 
Am desperate for help once again.   Hoping someone out there might be
familiar with this simple base mark on BIM bottles???  P. B. W.   For...
P??? Bottle Works...perhaps?  
 
All I know of are 2 examples.  Ours (from S. California) is a colorless,
2 7/8" dia bottle (only have base frag) with a 1/8-3/16" thk wall and
cup-mold bottom.  The intials are 5/16" tall and printed straight across
the center.
 
A friend (in Indiana) has a flat, "half-pint" whiskey flask, with a
"quilted" diamond pattern repeated all across the front and the back. He
surmises this type of flask was most popular in the 1890s-1910 era.
That same time period would fit our collection also.
 
But...WHO made this bottle (used this mark)????
 
ANY help/leads will be greatly appreciated.   :o)
 
Carol Serr
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