Parlez-vous Francais bottle top?

[Dug]

Dug this many moons ago in a New Orleans privy. Just getting around to trying to figure out the age or background. It is some sort of glass stopper that has the following embossing on top: N. Malinau . Inventeur . Bordeaux.

Web searching does not pop anything up. I assume it to be French in origin. Kind of a long shot that this will go anywhere, but nothing ventured nothing gained.

Any help on this?

 

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[2screwed]

Could we see a pic of the bottom please. There is one in the California State Parks collection that looks similar to this one (minus the lugs around the edge) that appears to be an internal screw type closure. The design was patented in the early 1850's.

California State Parks

There is also one in this collection shown in the neck of a broken bottle:

http://www.alienor.org/collections-des-musees/fiche-objet-87553-bouchon

 

[Dug]

Sorry, should have included a bottom pic as well. There are three tabs on the stopper, almost as if the stopper is pushed down and then turned so the tabs engage a lip in the bottle.

 

[2screwed]

Thank you, so not what I posted above. I did see a reference to a pressure type closure as well, I'll try to find that page again and see if I can come up with anything.

 

[Dug]

Thank you, so not what I posted above. I did see a reference to a pressure type closure as well, I'll try to find that page again and see if I can come up with anything.

Thank you! I'm quite surprised that you come up with what you did.

 

[2screwed]

OK, I didn't find any pictures but I did find him referenced in a French patent book in 1853. I'm not certain but I'm going to guess that the patent applies to this lid from the description.

http://books.googleusercontent.com/books/content?req=AKW5QadDWfMe7qNplemvIUIYUbElyId1-xfxJRjCyEXV9DkTHal7Gi4jqrh2xDbawxKTxaQ5Vg51WRryLLhuGeMQhpKRGtPuLGNTvx1vv7JNyeZ0cDtmrJLCTenzQMxirdOVRiVh4Ba3_t6QjhG-YUqC65NIY_n7SNSxOzj8YbEtNLLz47jwMe0UQarrI3N7Ca4VjcEdtp5JbwvB6hbQVUsx1icfpLojBtmrbsCwzB2QCO2XzxssW2SEseNzMrokf7LrN4LPlKeWUaZG3W9q6ArlT3j3CgkWZQ

Translated the reference reads:

(16172, 28 May 1853.) Preservation system known as Malinau Conservation, applicable to any kind of solid food preserves mixed with any liquid, as well as all liquids.

B. of 15 years, taken on April 21, 1853, by Malinau, merchant, ditches of the Red Hat, n. 50, in Bordeaux (Gironde).

 

[Dug]

OK, I didn't find any pictures but I did find him referenced in a French patent book in 1853. I'm not certain but I'm going to guess that the patent applies to this lid from the description.

http://books.googleusercontent.com/books/content?req=AKW5QadDWfMe7qNplemvIUIYUbElyId1-xfxJRjCyEXV9DkTHal7Gi4jqrh2xDbawxKTxaQ5Vg51WRryLLhuGeMQhpKRGtPuLGNTvx1vv7JNyeZ0cDtmrJLCTenzQMxirdOVRiVh4Ba3_t6QjhG-YUqC65NIY_n7SNSxOzj8YbEtNLLz47jwMe0UQarrI3N7Ca4VjcEdtp5JbwvB6hbQVUsx1icfpLojBtmrbsCwzB2QCO2XzxssW2SEseNzMrokf7LrN4LPlKeWUaZG3W9q6ArlT3j3CgkWZQ

Translated the reference reads:

(16172, 28 May 1853.) Preservation system known as Malinau Conservation, applicable to any kind of solid food preserves mixed with any liquid, as well as all liquids.

B. of 15 years, taken on April 21, 1853, by Malinau, merchant, ditches of the Red Hat, n. 50, in Bordeaux (Gironde).

That is really cool! Now I regret sleeping through half my high school French classes.

 

[Bass]

Good work 2screwed