BOTTLE
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- Material Type
- Artifact
- Other Name
- BUFFALO BRAND
- Date Range From
- 1920
- Date Range To
- 1930
- Materials
- GLASS
- Catalogue Number
- P19970108002
- Material Type
- Artifact
- Other Name
- BUFFALO BRAND
- Date Range From
- 1920
- Date Range To
- 1930
- Materials
- GLASS
- No. Pieces
- 1
- Length
- 24
- Diameter
- 6
- Description
- CLEAR GLASS BOTTLE WITH A ROUNDED BOTTOM, EMBOSSED ON THE SIDE "BUFFALO BRAND", "CALGARY BREWING & MALTING COMPANY LTD". BOTTLE HAS A MEDIUM LENGTH NARROW NECK. EMBOSSED IN THE CENTRE IS THE IMAGE OF A BUFFALO. SURFACE IS SCRATCHED, BUT OVERALL IN GOOD CONDITION.
- Subjects
- CONTAINER
- MERCHANDISING T&E
- Historical Association
- INDUSTRY
- History
- BOTTLES WERE SHAPED IN THIS WAY TO ENSURE THEY WERE STORED ON THEIR SIDE, TO PREVENT THE CORK FROM DRYING OUT. USED TO STORE POP OR GINGER ALE. UNEARTHED BY CONTRACTORS BUILDING CONDOS AT THE FORMER SITE OF THE BREWERY. BOTTLE RECOVERED IN RIVER VALLEY WHERE EXCAVATED SOIL WAS DISCARDED.
- Catalogue Number
- P19970108002
- Acquisition Date
- 1997-10
- Collection
- Museum
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