A bottle surprise from Maine

[adshepard]

Spent the last week and a half diving for bottles in Downeast Maine. No real awesome finds really. A very clean Warners, Kidney and Liver Cure was nice as were a few other things. However here is the odd one for the trip. I'm a sucker for any black glass and besides old coffin flasks they are the only slicks I bring up from the ocean depths now. Anyway I pulled one up the other day, put it in the car and drove home to rinse my gear and clean the bottles and clay pipes of the mud that is always inside them. I cleaned a nice clear ale bottle and inside was a cork, that's pretty common. The last bottle I clean is a black glass ale. I unplug the first layer of mud with a bamboo stick and start to run water in to the bottle. I then shake out the muddy water. I get to the end and things start to rattle in the bottle. I assume it's just some small pebbles, maybe some sea shells. To my surprise two bones drop out. I still hear rattling in the bottle and can't get the final bones to come out. I hold the bottle to the sun and lo and behold there's a wishbone from a chicken or squab in the bottle. That bone is never coming out, it's too hard now. Besides it's cool to see the bones in the bottle. I can just see some gentleman eating a chicken while on a steamship and depositing the bones in to his empty ale just to keep things neat and tidy then tossing the bottle in to the sea. Alan

 

[botlguy]

That is really KUHL, I would opt to keep that one on display. I enjoy such oddities. Jim

 

[cowseatmaize]

That's patent closure # 386953 by... Oh who am I kidding![]

 

[Bass Assassin]

Great find adshepard and thanks for the post. The wishbone in the bottle will definitely be a great conversation piece

 

[sunrunner]

it gives what would be a other wise , plan bottle real character.

 

[2find4me]

Who knows, might have been Colonel Sanders eating some chicken... Wait was he that old?

 

[RED Matthews]

Well Hello, I couldn't get to your name file - so this is all I can do. From your picture of the bottle I could tell that it was blown in a three part mold. I just out oine in my log book that is almost a twin to yours. I could also tell that yours was made in a dip mold lower section that wasnot chilled when the mold casting was made. which shows me that that part of the bottle has colkde mold variable glass thickness in its solidification making process. I can almost guess that the bottle has a deep half round punty rod emopontiling mark with a vent dot in the center. If you want to - you can contact me on email < bottlemysteries@yahoo.com >RED M.

 

[Bass Assassin]

It just goes to show that people have been liking chicken and beer for a long time

 

[adshepard]

Thanks for all the comments and information.