Bill,
    I am also interested in the possibility of a glass analysis group.  Please k
eep
me posted if it develops.
 
    Thanks,
    Chris Murphy
    Department of History & Anthropology
    Augusta State University
 
Paul G. Avery wrote:
 
> Bill,
>         Please keep me posted on your proposed glass group. Sounds like a grea
t
> idea for those of us that do alot of analysis. Thanks!
>
> Paul G. Avery
> Graduate Student
> University of Tennessee
>
> At 02:30 PM 9/15/98 -0600, you wrote:
> >Paul,
> >
> >        I don't know how much help this will be, but the manufacturer's mark
> >on the base is probably from the Armstrong Cork Co., Glass Division,
> >Lancaster, PA, used from 1938-1969 (Toulouse 24-25).  The mark was
> >used earlier by American Glass Works, Richmond, VA, and Paden City,
> >WV, 1908-1935 (Toulouse 23-23).
> >
> >Toulouse, Bottle Makers and Their Marks, 1971, Thomas Nelson, New
> >York.
> >
> >        The "Federal Law Prohibits. . ." warning did not begin until the end
> >of Prohibition, so the bottle was probably made by Armstrong.  *Most*
> >glass houses were embossing the year that bottles were made (at least
> >beverage bottles--sodas, milks, beer, liquor) by the early 1940s.
> >That makes the 48 a likely candidate for the year the bottle was
> >manufactured (1948).
> >
> >        Hope this may be of some small help.
> >
> >        Some of us are trying to put together a glass group to answer
> >questions such as this.  Are you interested?
> >
> >Bill Lockhart
> >[log in to unmask]
> >(505) 439-3732
> >