Number on bottle base.

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Yesterday I was detecting at an old home site that is now a timber tract and was recently timbered. I eyeballed the bottom half of a Mrs Winslows Soothing Syrup bottle. I got home and realized that I have a whole one I dug in New Orleans many years ago. Researching I found that this was a Morphine Sulfate based concoction that was first marketed in 1849. On the base of the broken bottle is a 2, and on the base of the whole one is a 4. What do these numbers represent?

 

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Could just be a batch number designating which blower produced it so they could tell how many were being produced by a particular worker on a day, week, month or yearly basis would be my guess...