Colonial jug and bottles kinda day..
- Thread starter Calabash Digger
- Start date
villagenut
Gold Member
Very nice ovoid jug....Glad it was not in pieces.
Nice stuff. Your bottles with perhaps the exception of the amber flask are post 1900 when the crown closures were invented. Some of the retro Coke bottles still use this closure and a lot of us remember getting the 5 cent Coke bottles out of the machines back in the day with the same "crown" closure.
Your jug is early to mid 19th century. That's when stoneware became vastly popular and more available and the thick rim is the key to dating it. We find these in antiques stores here frequently, at least we used to when the antique stores were open! By the time of the Civil War the ovoid shape was lost and moved more toward a straight side, becoming totally straight sided by the end of the century.
Any day you get an intact bottle or jug it's a good day.
Your jug is early to mid 19th century. That's when stoneware became vastly popular and more available and the thick rim is the key to dating it. We find these in antiques stores here frequently, at least we used to when the antique stores were open! By the time of the Civil War the ovoid shape was lost and moved more toward a straight side, becoming totally straight sided by the end of the century.
Any day you get an intact bottle or jug it's a good day.
The first thing I wanted to collect was bottles. They have always been hard for me to get. Until this week. Film at 11. Still cleaning them up some.
Wildcat1750
Gold Member
- Nov 18, 2012
- 5,015
- 4,105
- 🏆 Honorable Mentions:
- 4
- Detector(s) used
-
AT PRO/Ace 250w8.5x11" DD Coil/
Garrett Pro-Pointer/Garrett Pro-Pointer AT/
Vibra-Tector 730/
Radio Shack Discovery 1000 (Tracker IV)
- Primary Interest:
- All Treasure Hunting
Love the dive videos and the finds....
Top Member Reactions
-
2318 -
1124 -
1043 -
898 -
835 -
778 -
754 -
740 -
606 -
507 -
493 -
475 -
452 -
421 -
396 -
394 -
O
393
-
387 -
383 -
374
