Kendra

I found the following bottle type at Cossack, a colonial port in the
Northwest of Western Australia.
 
Type 4a. Three piece mould olive green bottle with tapered body and rounded
shoulders. Applied flattened side lip with v-shaped string rim. Conical
embossed pushup (Ricketts patent) embossed with  6 TO GALLON.
1870-1920.

The site was built in 1870 which gives the start date but the Ricketts
patent was around from 1820. I will check my Cossack databases later and see
if I can fine date the bottle type further by association but right now I am
moving house.

Gaye

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From: HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Kendra
Kennedy
Sent: Thursday, 4 December 2008 1:33 PM
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Subject: Bottle Mark Assistance

Hello again Histarchers,

I'm searching for information on a few different bottle marks.  I'm working
on a partially submerged ballast dump in Pensacola, Florida in conjunction
with my thesis on the maritime landscape of the Pensacola waterfront.  The
pile is covered with artifacts, including ceramics, glass, amorphous metal
objects, architectural elements, bone, machinery, etc. with a wide date
range.  The pile is first represented on an 1896 bird's eye map, but the
diagnostic artifacts seem to place the major use of the pile between 1870
and 1920.

Numerous glass fragments were recovered during a surface survey of the pile,
including three bottle bases with marks.  I've already consulted Toulouse's
Bottle Makers and Their Marks, the Historic Glass Bottle ID & Info website
(<http://www.sha.org/bottle/index.htm>), many of Bill Lockhart's articles,
and David Whitten's Glass Factory Marks website
(<http://myinsulators.com/glass-factories/bottlemarks.html>).  I've also
conducted numerous Google searches with limited results.  I'm hoping someone
can help.

The first mark is "CW & Co," which is listed in Toulouse and Whitten.
Though both list the mark, neither identifies the company or a date range.
Both state that the mark has been found on dark olive green ale and beer
bottles (Guiness in particular) and is likely British.  If anyone has
updated information on this mark or has found it in well-dated, closed
context excavations, I'd love to know.

The second two marks may be related.  The first imprint is "6 to the Gallon"
with an Omega symbol or rotated C after that.  The second imprint is "Gallon
p6 Co".  These bottle bases are also made of dark olive green glass.  An
Australian bottle digger website
(<http://www.users.bigpond.com/oz-riley/faq.html>, search for "6 to the
gallon") states that the "6 to the Gallon" bottles are commonly found in
Australia and are beer/ale bottles dating to the 1860s.  I imagine the
"Gallon p6 Co" bottle also references the bottle volume (6 bottles = 1
gallon), but just in case the "p6" refers instead to the company (what with
"Co" right after it), I searched Toulouse and Whitten and found nothing on
such a mark/company.  If anyone has any academic/historic references for
these marks or, again, has found either of them in a well-dated, closed
context excavation, I'd love to hear from you.

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Sincere thanks,
~Kendra Kennedy
UWF Graduate Student, Maritime and Historical Archaeology

P.S. Thanks to those who helped me with a previous request about
French/Marseille roofing tiles, from another ballast pile, if I did not
thank you personally.  I have found some great information and will be
posting another more specific information request about these tiles soon.

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