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Title |
Black Glass Beer Bottle, c. 1890s |
Object Name |
Bottle, Beer |
Description |
Black Glass Beer Bottle, c. 1890s. This black or amber colored non seen through glass bottle is possibly a dip molded ale bottle. It has a voluminous round body, a relatively long and slim neck almost the same hight as the body itself . The finish can be described as a tapered collar with ring or ring-neck tapered collar. There is no label or cap. |
Date |
c. 1890s |
Creator |
Unknown |
Role |
Manufacturer |
Catalog Number |
2019.002.022 |
Dimensions |
H-8.25 W-3 D-3 inches |
Collection |
3D - Food Service Tools & Equipment |
Inscription Text |
none |
Provenance |
Part of 4+ boxes of archaeological material recovered from the Morgan Oyster Beds on Bear Island in Belmont, CA. |
Notes |
"There were various bottle styles used for beer during the first half of the 19th century, though the dominant theme seems to be short and squatty with a moderate length neck. These represented styles that were most commonly used from or prior to the Civil War. Another similar style that was used for ale/beer in the late 18th through the first half of the 19th century. The earliest 19th century style of bottles were black glass bottle. This is a very commonly encountered style bottle on historic sites dating from the 1820s to about 1870. These early black glass ale and porter bottles were referred to as "junk bottles" from at least the late 18th century through mid 19th century." [https://sha.org/bottle/beer.htm 04/15/2019] "This popular general two-part finish style had a lot of form variation (e.g., taller/shorter upper parts, wider/narrower overall conformation, rounded/sharp lower parts) and was used on a wide assortment of different types of bottles. This finish style appears to have originated in the 1820s with its most frequent use made during the era from the 1840s into the 1880s. (...) It should also be noted that mineral/export finishes appear to have been used on mouth-blown Canadian (and English) beer bottles until the early 1900s though largely disappeared on U.S. made beer bottles by around 1890 or so (Lockhart pers. comm. 2007)." [https://sha.org/bottle/finishstyles.htm#Brandy%20or%20Wine 04/29/2019] |
Search Terms |
Archaeolgy Archaeological Material Archaeological Materials Bottle Collection Bottle Collectors Bottles Bottles Glass Glassware Morgan Oyster Company |
Subjects |
Bottle industry Bottles Bottling industry Glass industry Glassware |
Credit line |
Courtesy of John Shroyer |