RED Matthews
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I bought this book several years ago and found the words used, to be too different from my vocabulary, that all I did is look at the pictures and put it on a shelf Now - I just went through an extensive reading.
The reason being – that there is some good information worth covering. The first subject I took an interest in. where called “BELLARMINES†– Never heard of them! They are a ceramic bottle that apparently fitted into use between the goat skin bag and glass bottles in Europe. They were a type of Rhenish stoneware manufactured in Frechen. Page 55 in the book; “A GUIDE TO Artifacts of Colonial America†by Ivor Noel Hume.
These bottles were made to hold from a pint to five gallons. They were made of a gray-bodied stone ware and coated with an iron-oxide slip that when fired, gave them brown mottle skin coating. when fired. They also had a face medallion formed on them. I don’t think many of them made it to American soil. But they were in the book.
The next two chapters cover “Glass Liquor BOTTLESâ€, and it includes dated outlines of bottle forms from 1652 to 1834. The next chapter covers “Glass Pharmaceutical BOTTLESâ€, with some illustrated bottle shapes. After that there is a chapter on ceramic bottles..
The book has a lot of chapters on subjects diggers would get a lot out of. From – buckles to buttons, to clay pipes, ceramics and horseshoes - at least twenty chapter subjects of artifacts diggers find.
RED Matthews .
The reason being – that there is some good information worth covering. The first subject I took an interest in. where called “BELLARMINES†– Never heard of them! They are a ceramic bottle that apparently fitted into use between the goat skin bag and glass bottles in Europe. They were a type of Rhenish stoneware manufactured in Frechen. Page 55 in the book; “A GUIDE TO Artifacts of Colonial America†by Ivor Noel Hume.
These bottles were made to hold from a pint to five gallons. They were made of a gray-bodied stone ware and coated with an iron-oxide slip that when fired, gave them brown mottle skin coating. when fired. They also had a face medallion formed on them. I don’t think many of them made it to American soil. But they were in the book.
The next two chapters cover “Glass Liquor BOTTLESâ€, and it includes dated outlines of bottle forms from 1652 to 1834. The next chapter covers “Glass Pharmaceutical BOTTLESâ€, with some illustrated bottle shapes. After that there is a chapter on ceramic bottles..
The book has a lot of chapters on subjects diggers would get a lot out of. From – buckles to buttons, to clay pipes, ceramics and horseshoes - at least twenty chapter subjects of artifacts diggers find.
RED Matthews .
