Jay--
 
        We found something which sounds very similar to your bottle in a
well at a postbellum site in South Carolina.  Ours was marked "Selters
Nassau" and was dated to 1880-1900 in David Marsh's Augusta Bottle
Inventory, App. E of  "And They Went Down Both Into the Water":
Archaeological Data Recovery of the Riverfront Augusta Site (9Ri65), J. W.
Joseph, New South Associates, Stone Mountain, GA.  Our bottle was a little
taller, about 32.5 cm, brown stoneware with a handle near the lip, and an
impressed mark near the shoulder with the name.  Marsh says these are
spring/mineral water bottles.  We suspect they may also have been used for
rum--why bring water to the Caroinas from the Bahamas?  As I recall, there
is a photo in Joe's document.  There is also one in ours, (Starvegut Hall
Plantation:  Archaeological Data Recovery 38CH1398 and 38CH1400, Dunes West,
Charleston County, South Carolina, Lucy B. Wayne and Martin F. Dickinson,
SouthArc, Inc., Gainesville, FL).  I would be glad to send a picture via
snail mail--send me your address.
 
                                                Lucy Wayne