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Bottle
- Material
- GLASS
- Description
- A dark green glass bottle 21cm high which tapers from a wider bottom to a narrow neck. There is a ridge 4cm down from the lip. The bottle lip is made for a cork. The bottom of the bottle is 2 cm thick wiith an oriental symbol embossed on the bottom. Small bubbles in the glass indicate it is a handb…
- Title
- Wing's Cafe Bottle
- Original Owner
- Wing's Cafe, Smithers BC
- Category
- DISTRIBUTION AND TRANSPORTATION OBJECTS
- Sub-Category
- CONTAINER
- Description
- A dark green glass bottle 21cm high which tapers from a wider bottom to a narrow neck. There is a ridge 4cm down from the lip. The bottle lip is made for a cork. The bottom of the bottle is 2 cm thick wiith an oriental symbol embossed on the bottom. Small bubbles in the glass indicate it is a handblown bottle.
- History Of Use
- This was likely used in Wing's Cafe Wing's Cafe was a Chinese restaurant, roughly where the Nora building is located today (2017) (3726 Alfred Avenue. Smithers Chronicles places Wing's in the parking lot area. Wing's Cafe existed from the early 1900s to 1966 when it was torn down. Ron Toews, part-owner of the Nora Building and donor of the bottle, said that this bottle and many others were discovered during the construction of the Nora Building foundations in 1980. The Nora Building was opened in 1981.
- Material
- GLASS
- Height
- 24 cm
- Circumference
- 21 cm
- Units Of Measurement
- Centimeters
- Dimension Notes
- circumference taken at bottom of bottle
- Accession No.
- 2017.93.1
- Type of Record
- Museum Artifact
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