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Mitzi, What a flash from the past. Glad to hear you folks are doing well
and you are still obviously enjoying what you do. My best to Mark. Take
care. Bob Kautz
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mitzi Rossillon" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, August 06, 2009 12:49 PM
Subject: Re: "6 to the Gallon" bottles and "...HERS / ...CK" blue bottle
>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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