Dear Hist Arch, During recent excavations in Southern Virginia, we recovered several interesting glass bottle fragments. The green bottles are free blown and exhibit a distinctive, low mameleon push-up pontil, applied string lip. The body is full of bubbles. The color is on the light side of green, with a distinctive quality. The bottles were recovered from a probable American Civil War feature context. The bottles closely resemble one pictured in /Antique Glass Bottles: Their History and Evolution (1500 - 1860) /(Van den Bossche 2001:322(3)) and to a "Jules Pernod pastis bottle" pictured on the BLM historic glass bottles website (http://www.blm.gov/historic_bottles/Typing/wine/julespernod.jpg). I was wondering whether these combined characteristics are diagnostic of mid-19th c. French-produced bottles and if they specifically held pastis or were generic. Any information, in particular regarding social context, is welcome. Anyone who would like can contact me and I will send pictures. Thanks Christopher Sperling