BOTTLE
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- Material Type
- Artifact
- Other Name
- SOFT DRINK BOTTLE?
- Date Range From
- 1860
- Date Range To
- 1880
- Materials
- GLASS
- Catalogue Number
- P19840010000
- Material Type
- Artifact
- Other Name
- SOFT DRINK BOTTLE?
- Date Range From
- 1860
- Date Range To
- 1880
- Materials
- GLASS
- No. Pieces
- 1
- Diameter
- 5.5
- Description
- GREENISH COLOR. MOLDED BOTTLE WITH SEAMS RUNNING THROUGH CENTRE AND UP BOTTLE NECK. LIP HAS BEEN ADDED. SMALL HORIZONTAL SCRATCHES ON LIP PROBABLY CAUSED FROM SPINNING TECHNIQUE. HEAVY GLASS WALLS, SMOOTH FINISH, BUBBLES AND SURFACE IRREGULARITIES THROUGHOUT. ROUNDED BASE.
- Subjects
- CONTAINER
- FOOD SERVICE T&E
- Historical Association
- INDUSTRY
- History
- UNKNOWN PROVENANCE, BELIEVED CANADIAN. FOUND BY DONOR IN OLD RIVER CHANNEL CUT IN VICINITY OF ST. MARY'S - OLDMAN RIVER JUNCTION NEAR FT. WHOOP-UP SITE. ROUNDED BASE SUGGESTS THIS WAS A SODA BOTTLE, INABILITY TO STAND, THEREFORE DISALLOWING CORK STOPPER TO DRYOUT AND SHRINK. THICKNESS OF WALLS WOULD ALSO RESIST GAS PRESSURE. REF. TIME-LIFE - THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF COLLECTIBLES.
- Catalogue Number
- P19840010000
- Acquisition Date
- 1984-02
- Collection
- Museum
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