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1890's bottle cap? - 7/23/2011 9:59:03 PM    Wheelah23 Posts: 4282 Joined: 8/9/2010 From: Glen Ridge, New Jersey Status: online This is an interesting whatzit I found at my 1880's-1910 dump. I figure it has to be a bottle cap, due to the crimpled edges. It doesn't look like a modern bottle cap, but it's close enough for me to see the connection. However, the size isn't quite right. It's just barely too small to fit over the lip of an 1890's crown top I pulled from the same dump. Its edges rest around the very outer edge of the crown top's upper part. Could the metal have shrunk to a slightly smaller size? I don't know what kind of metal it is, but it doesn't seem really rusty, so I think it can't be steel. I didn't count the teeth, but it's definitely more than a modern crown cap has. Ideas? Attachment (1) _____________________________ Looking for bottles from Glen Ridge, Montclair, Bloomfield, Orange, East Orange, West Orange, South Orange, and if I like 'em, any other bottles from Essex County NJ! Also Manahawkin NJ! Message me if you want to find them a new home. Post #: 1

RE: 1890's bottle cap? - 7/23/2011 9:59:29 PM    Wheelah23 Posts: 4282 Joined: 8/9/2010 From: Glen Ridge, New Jersey Status: online The cork is obviously rotted away. Attachment (1) _____________________________ Looking for bottles from Glen Ridge, Montclair, Bloomfield, Orange, East Orange, West Orange, South Orange, and if I like 'em, any other bottles from Essex County NJ! Also Manahawkin NJ! Message me if you want to find them a new home. (in reply to Wheelah23) Post #: 2

RE: 1890's bottle cap? - 7/23/2011 9:59:54 PM    Wheelah23 Posts: 4282 Joined: 8/9/2010 From: Glen Ridge, New Jersey Status: online Profile view Attachment (1) _____________________________ Looking for bottles from Glen Ridge, Montclair, Bloomfield, Orange, East Orange, West Orange, South Orange, and if I like 'em, any other bottles from Essex County NJ! Also Manahawkin NJ! Message me if you want to find them a new home. (in reply to Wheelah23) Post #: 3

RE: 1890's bottle cap? - 7/23/2011 10:12:00 PM    cyberdigger Posts: 12267 Joined: 11/29/2008 From: I 195 @ US 9, NJ USA Status: offline Here, it looks like a gear Here, it looks like a dessicated peanut butter cup ..and here, it looks like a wheel off a toy truck.. take your pick..! (in reply to Wheelah23) Post #: 4

RE: 1890's bottle cap? - 7/23/2011 10:20:21 PM    epackage Posts: 9695 Joined: 5/3/2009 From: Jersey Status: offline Could have just been attached to a cork at one time to make it easire to grip and pull the cork out of the bottle... _____________________________ I WANT PATERSON NJ BOTTLES !! Being NICE for the SAKE of OTHERS !!! (in reply to cyberdigger) Post #: 5

RE: 1890's bottle cap? - 7/23/2011 10:21:58 PM    Wheelah23 Posts: 4282 Joined: 8/9/2010 From: Glen Ridge, New Jersey Status: online Why, Charles my boy, I think you've figured it out! I have found an extremely rare Shape Shifting Rusty Crap-o-Matic! I must go tell the foundation... We'll be rich! _____________________________ Looking for bottles from Glen Ridge, Montclair, Bloomfield, Orange, East Orange, West Orange, South Orange, and if I like 'em, any other bottles from Essex County NJ! Also Manahawkin NJ! Message me if you want to find them a new home. (in reply to cyberdigger) Post #: 6

RE: 1890's bottle cap? - 7/24/2011 12:20:54 AM    surfaceone Posts: 7048 Joined: 12/9/2008 Status: offline quote: Here, it looks like a gear Hey Connor, I'm voting gear, here... (in reply to Wheelah23) Post #: 7

RE: 1890's bottle cap? - 7/24/2011 1:41:52 AM    rockbot Posts: 3491 Joined: 6/17/2009 From: Hilo, Hawaii Status: offline It looks to be made of copper and the center has a rust spot were an axle would be. Or like Jim said. The ribbed edges are too rounded to be a gear or bottle cap. _____________________________ " Politicians are like diapers, they need to be changed often, and for the same reason" Samuel Clemens (in reply to surfaceone) Post #: 8

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