tigue710
Well-Known Member
Hey, really enjoyed the piece about dating machine made bottles. (I've enjoyed you whole site) Being pretty well versed in bottle language a lot of the site is a good refresher for me but I've not seen any work in detail put together about machine made bottle before. There is so much to learn here which can very helpful to a digger in determining age of a dump they are digging, or a particular use of an area of the dump at what time. For instance today I dug a hand blown Carters master ink. Many of the bottles where it had been dug were machine made but because I found a few blown bottles I figured the area is 1905 or around that time and there would be a good chance of hitting a nice 1890's layer. But back to the ink which is clear, but not purple. It is straw. Being a small dumping area with in a large dump I now know that it was used after 1912 in this area, and maybe a little too far away from the much older stuff I'm digging elsewhere in the dump. Also I found the evolution of the bottle machine very interesting and loved the video of the Owens bottle machine! Thanks, Matt