I've run across an advert for bottled mineral water from 1870. It offers
"...200 baskets - quarts and pints - ..." Can anyone explain "baskets" in
this sense? I'd infer that it's used as we would use "cases". But were
they really "baskets" as we know them? And is there any way to tell how
MANY quarts or pints to the "basket"?
Robert C. Leavitt