PBW may be the Phoenix Bottling Works - a downtown study done by Soil
Systems addressed the Bottling Works property.  Try Cory Breternitz in
Phownix (Soil Systems) for details.

Jeanette McKenna


> [Original Message]
> From: Carol Serr <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: 7/6/2007 3:54:35 PM
> Subject: P. B. W. bottle mark - ?
>
> 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
> Jones & Stokes
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