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Olive Jones
04/30/99 10:11 AM

To:   John Light/Est-East/PCH/CA@PCH
cc:
Subject:  bottles

John, would you please pass on this message for me concerning the bottles.  If
they are absolutely sure of the date of the context then the bottle is likely a
French one.  Harris has identified a square wide-mouth bottle like this one in
the collections at the Fortress of Louisbourg (type 9 flacon).  They are
illustrated in Jane E. Harris, "Eighteenth-Century French Blue-Green Bjottles
from the Fortress of Louisbourg, Nova Scotia" in History and Archeology, No. 29,
published by Parks Canada in 1979.  Unfortunately it is now out-of-print but
there should be copies available on inter-library loan.  There was also an
example found at Fort Michilimackinac which is illustrated by Margaret Kimble
Brown in "Glass from Fort Michilimackinac: a Classification for Eighteeth
Century Glass", in Michigan Archaeologist, Vol. 17, Nos. 3-4, Sept-Dec. 1971,
Pl. 12, p. 195 and Fig. 8c, p. 158.

Mid-18th century French glass bottle production included a number of
wide-mouthed bottles/jars for the shipping and storing of various types of
food-stuffs.  After-death inventories at the Fortress of Louisbourg mention
olives, preserved fruits, and brandied fruits, which could be put into a
bottle/jar of this type.  A description of the bottle industry around Marseille
in 1773 included a list of the types of products put into bottles and flasks,
including wines, liquors, sirops, olives, capers, anchovies, marine tuna,
brandy, anisette, and toilet waters (p. 111 in W. Scoville, Capitalism and
French Glassmaking 1640-1789, University of California Publications in
Economics, Vol 15, Jan. 31, 1950 and reprinted by Johnson Reprint Company in
1968).

Olive Jones, Parks Canada