Yes, there are a pair from the Van Sweringen site, one with it's mount or should I say "vices" in place. They can be seen at
http://www.stmaryscity.org/VirtualExhbit/ordinary.htm
Until the advent of round, free-blown bottles after about 1650, case bottles are the only type of glass bottles we find. They continue in use for quite a while and are particularly fit for ship board use.
Silas
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From: "Mary C. Beaudry" <[log in to unmask]>
> Oh, and I am pretty sure one with screw threads and/or cap was found at Van
> Swearingen site at St Mary's City?? Is that right Silas?
>
> On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 1:47 PM, Mary C. Beaudry wrote:
>
> > Bly,
> >
> > If none of the pewter screw caps for case bottles have been found in
> > English contexts, are you positing that the abundance of them at Jamestown
> > had something to do with the way the project was supplied/outfitted (e.g.,
> > purchases from Amsterdam warehouses or the like?)?
> >
> > Mary
> >
> > On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 2:26 PM, Bly Straube wrote:
> >
> >> Mo,
> >> Those pewter screw caps (called 'vices' in the C17) are a
> >> Dutch phenomenon. Hugh Willmott (Early post-medieval vessel
> >> glass in England c. 1500-1670, CBA Research Report 132,
> >> 2002) claims that not one has been found in England. We have
> >> lots of them from our excavations of James Fort, established
> >> by the English in 1607 in Jamestown, Virginia.
> >> Bly
> >>
> >> Beverly A. (Bly) Straube, FSA
> >> Senior Archaeological Curator
> >> Jamestown Rediscovery
> >> 1365 Colonial Parkway
> >> Jamestown, VA 23081
> >> 757 229-4997 x103
> >>
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On
> >> Behalf Of Maureen Brown
> >> Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2008 12:52 PM
> >> To: [log in to unmask]
> >> Subject: Case Bottle & Pewter Screw Cap Refs?
> >>
> >> Hello everyone,
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Since my companion, Marybeth, had such a great response to
> >> her request
> >> for faience references from everyone, I thought I'd make a
> >> small request
> >> to the group as well.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> I'm researching glass from the La Belle shipwreck, which was
> >> one of the
> >> La Salle's, the French explorer's vessels that wrecked on
> >> the Texas
> >> coast in 1686. The majority of glass recovered includes
> >> three sizes of
> >> case bottles and associated pewter screw caps, similar to
> >> the ones found
> >> on several VOC (Dutch East Indiamen) merchant vessels. In
> >> addition,
> >> there were a few onion bottles and hour glasses/sand clocks
> >> found as
> >> well. I'm interested in references, information, and/or
> >> comparative
> >> underwater and terrestrial sites that have found 17th - 18th
> >> century
> >> case bottles and/or pewter screw caps/tops.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Thanks a bunch and hope everyone is cooler than us in
> >> Austin!
> >>
> >> Mo
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Maureen Brown
> >>
> >> Collections Manager/Archeologist III
> >>
> >> Archeology Division
> >>
> >> Texas Historical Commission
> >>
> >> P.O. Box 12276
> >>
> >> Austin, TX 78701-2276
> >>
> >> (512) 927-7876 office
> >>
> >> (512) 927-9797 fax
> >>
> >> [log in to unmask]
> >>
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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