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Found this today in the low tide mud. This is the oldest glass tooled-blob top bottle I have found in NYC. It is embossed: "A. C. Westlake ☆ Auburn N.Y.". On the underside of the bottle it is embossed "A. C. W. 1876" The bottle is 7 inches tall.
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Auburn NY is over 250 miles away from NYC in the Finger Lakes region of NY so this bottle had to travel quite far to get here, likely by way of train. (By 1876 the railroads were very numerous and even the first transcontinental railroad was in in full use, for example NYC people and goods could travel to San Francisco in just 90 hours, impressive when just a decade earlier it would have taken months by way of ox-drawn wagons)
If this bottle is from the year 1876 as it says on the underside that would mean the president at the time was Ulysses S. Grant. Some current events of the day would include: the Battle of Little Bighorn, the United States Centennial on July 4th, the arrest of Boss Tweed of NYC's Tammany Hall (convicted of corruption in 1877, he would die in prison), Wyatt Earp's appointment as a lawman in Dodge City, the murder of Wild Bill Hickok in Deadwood, and Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone.
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