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Anybody have any information about this olive green "Asterisk" gin bottle?

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I inherited it from my father who probably bought it back around 1970.
 

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I've only found one other example, and it has 2 dots around the asterisk.

 

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I've only found one other example, and it has 2 dots around the asterisk.



I find this type of history fascinating, because this bottle was found underwater at a Panama dump site, which means it traveled down from San Fransisco with people who were part of the great migration gold rush from the East Coast to the West Coast.

I have a relative (with wife) that made the overland trip from the midwest to the Sacramento area, around 1846. His name is Samual Kyburz, and there's a little town named after him. He located the site for Sutter's Mill, where gold was discovered, which started the stampede west.
 

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This blob top with a 6 pointed star is attributed to SFPGW SAN FRANCISCO & PACIFIC GLASS WORKS:

 

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I asked my mother about where she thinks they bought the gin bottle, and she couldn't remember, so it's someplace between Santa Barbara, CA and Portland, OR, where they did their antique shopping.

The San Francisco Glass Works bottles in Panama and Hawaii make sense, because shipping to and from San Francisco went to those places.
 

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That's a Dutch bottle, not American. I'm pretty certain it wasn't made in California, I've never heard of case gins being made in the US at all and that one is typical of late 19th century or early 20th century Dutch design and not at all typical of US design from that era. I don't know what the asterisk represents, but I'm sure it's just a coincidence that it was also used by the San Francisco & Pacific Glass Works.
 

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