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Mitzi,
This does not preclude a long use for the bottle. How long was your Butte
Chinatown site occupied and what is the possibility of re-use by the people
who created the deposit? The Chinese fishing camp adjacent to the whaling
company at Ballast Point re-cycled scrap metal, old ceramics, and old
bottles, as recycling was part of their frontier experience.
Ron May
Legacy 106, Inc.
In a message dated 8/6/2009 1:00:09 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
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I am confident that the 1875 date for the "six to one gallon" bottle is
too
early. We recently found a piece of one at Butte Chinatown and the
associated deposit post-dates 1901, as I recall.
Mitzi Rossiullon
Renewable Technologies, Inc.
Butte, MT
On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 1:11 PM, Phil Glover <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
> Kendra,
> The collection I am working on had a bottle similar if not identical to
> the one
> you have embossed "six to one gallon" on its base. We found a reference
on
> page 616 of "Behind the Seawall: Historical Archaeology along the San
> Francisco Waterfront" by Pastron et al (1981). They identified it as an
> export
> lager bottle made by W.M. McCully & Co. of Pittsburg reportedly from
1875.
> Info on W.M. McCully & Co can be found on pg 351 of "Bottle Makers and
> Their
> Marks" by Toulouse, which will give you dates of 1841-1886. Hope this was
> helpful.
> Cheers,
> Phil Glover
>
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