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Bottle
- Material
- GLASS;
- Description
- Looks like a small dairy (milk) bottle. It is a very light aqua color with a wide mouth. Bottom is misshapen - one side is thicker than the other. Two seams to the base of the lip.
- Category
- DISTRIBUTION AND TRANSPORTATION OBJECTS
- Sub-Category
- CONTAINER
- Description
- Looks like a small dairy (milk) bottle. It is a very light aqua color with a wide mouth. Bottom is misshapen - one side is thicker than the other. Two seams to the base of the lip.
- Narrative
- BOOK: The Award Guide to Collecting Bottles By Nancy Pratt Berkow Reference file: BOTTLES
- History Of Use
- The milk bottle, like the Mason jar, is a newcomer to the bottle-collecting scene. Both appeared in the mid-nineteenth century, but the milk bottle wasn't popularly in use until the 1880s.
- Material
- GLASS;
- Accession No.
- 1982.27.6
- Type of Record
- Museum Artifact
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