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                                        Date:     28-Sep-1994 10:43am EST
                                        From:     Thomas Langhorne
                                                  TLANGHOR
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TO:  Remote RSCS/NJE Network User         ( _JNET%HISTARCH@ASUACAD )
 
 
Subject: Missing the bottle point?
 
    In response to Gordon Pollard's recent posting----
 
         I have read your lengthy posting regarding the National Bottle
    Museum and the Listerine issue.  I appreciate the fact that the Museum
    included a cautionary note discussing "artifact vs. commodity", etc.
    However, nowhere in the cautionary note, as transcribed in your
    posting,  was any discussion of the derivation of the bottles;
    regardless of whether considered "artifacts" or "commodities."  It
    could be argued that someone interested in the "history" represented by
    the bottle (artifact) could be just as pre-disposed to potting out
    sites as someone interested in the "commodity" aspects of a bottle.
    This could occur in spite of the fact that a good deal of the "history"
    of a bottle(s) is inherent in its context within an archaeological
    site.  It is this latter issue which is not addressed in the cautionary
    note and about which I feel strongly, having seen the results of bottle
    collector activity on numerous sites in various parts of the country.
    The cautionary note should have gone a step further in its attempt to
    educate the interested public.
 
 
                                Tom Langhorne
 
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