Interesting find.

[k0bgalan]

Yesterday, I attended a service for a friend who passed away several months ago. It was held at Ft. Stanton, a military cemetery and museum. The latter we attended afterwards. I was surprised to see a small collection of antique bottles. I ask about them, but scant information was available. All they could say was that they were over 100 years old. Still makes we wonder why a military museum would have bottles relics?

 

[pepperj]

Yesterday, I attended a service for a friend who passed away several months ago. It was held at Ft. Stanton, a military cemetery and museum. The latter we attended afterwards. I was surprised to see a small collection of antique bottles. I ask about them, but scant information was available. All they could say was that they were over 100 years old. Still makes we wonder why a military museum would have bottles relics?

First of all condolences to you on the loss of your friend.

No photo of the bottles?

Medicine bottles, liquor, and extract were still needed in the military.

Given the long diverse history of the fort, I wouldn't have really thought anything different myself seeing them on display.

 

[jewelerguy]

I googled why the Ft Stanton museum had bottles displayed and it answered that they were recovered from the trash dumps of the site and reflect the multi usage of the facility as a fort, at one time a sanatorium, and later an internment facility for German merchant sailors during WW2. Never been there myself, but it sounds interesting. Hope that answer helps

 

[Harry Pristis]

That's interesting history at Fort Stanton. There is a book that catalogs and describes with images the thousands of bottles recovered from Fort Union, NM, and from Fort Laramie, WY, dating back to 1849 to 1891. Excavation by the Dept. of the Interior.
The book, BOTTLES ON THE WESTERN FRONTIER is authored by Rex L. Wilson, University of Arizona Press, my edition is 1981. It's a keeper!