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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