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Title |
Vaseline Bottle recovered from City Centre Plaza, c. 1880-1890. |
Object Name |
Bottle, Medicine |
Description |
Vaseline Bottle recovered from City Centre Plaza, c. 1880-1890. This bottle is round shaped with hand-blown tooled rim for a cork closure. The company's name embossed on the front side of bottle "CHESEBROUGH MFG CO [arched] above VASELINE". A .625 inch short and narrow neck flares out .25 inch shoulder to a 1.75 inch body. The bottle is clear and shows evidence of glass machine manufacture. |
Date |
c. 1880-1890 |
Creator |
Chesebrough Manufacturing Co, New Jersey |
Role |
Manufacturer |
Catalog Number |
1999.048.244 |
Dimensions |
H-2.75 W-1.75 D-1.75 inches |
Collection |
3D - Medical & Psychological Tools & Equip. |
Inscription Text |
"CHESEBROUGH MFG CO / VASELINE" (embossed on the front side of bottle) |
Provenance |
20 boxes of archaeological material excavated from the City Centre Plaza site at 950 Main at Middlefield in Redwood City. Excavation for development, done by Basin Research Associates. |
Notes |
Homeopathic bottles, primarily the vials the final product was dispensed in for patient or consumer use, were a simple but distinctively shaped class of bottles. These vials are very commonly found on historic sites throughout the U. S. and Canada - and probably other places around the world. The style dates back to at least to the 1870s and at least as late as the 1930s. [http://www.sha.org/bottle/medicinal.htm] Vaseline was patented in 1872 (patent #127,568) by Robert Augustus Chesebrough, doing business as Chesebrough Manufacturing Company, based in Perth Amboy, New Jersey. Chesebrough may have been producing his product for a few years before it was actually patented under the name Vaseline. http://www.glassbottlemarks.com/chesebrough-manufg-co-vaseline-jars/ |
Search Terms |
Archaeology Bottles Chesebrough Manufacturing Co, New Jersey City Center Plaza Drug Stores Medicine Privy Redwood City Vaseline |
Subjects |
Bottle industry Bottles Drugstores Medicine Vaseline |
People |
Chesebrough, Robert A. |
Credit line |
Courtesy of the City of Redwood City |