Early American made Godfrey's Cordials

[Ratzilla]

Flared lip

 

[Ratzilla]

These two mallets were dug higher up in the same hole...that gives you an idea of how old this sucker is, even too old for Wistar. Godfrey's has been around for quite a while!

 

[sandchip]

Helluva pit!

 

[Steve/sewell]

Thanks for posting those Tom ,do you still have any of those? Are they from the dig Dale Murschell speaks of in his Wistarburgh book.

 

[southern Maine diver]

hi Tom...
great bottles there...
I was born in NJ and my last name is Godfrey, but my ancestors came over from England to Hampton, NH in 1628. Any way to track them down to the NJ Godfrey's? Just asking cause it caught my attention.

Great looking glass... would love to have a piece of "Godfrey" glass if I am related...

Thanks,
Wayne Godfrey

 

[Ratzilla]

Hi Wayne - Godfrey's actually refers to the shape of the bottle, not the company that used it - Godfrey's Cordial was a stock bottle shape for most early glasshouses, every bottle shape had a name. Tall, skinny little cylinders, for instance, were marketed by glass houses as Bateman's Drops - no matter what the purchaser actually used them for. I'm sure Godfrey really did have a cordial he marketed in tapered little bottles like this at some point in the distant past, but I've never seen an embossed one. I have seen labeled ones, and they were generally extracts, I've never seen one marked Godfrey's on the label.

 

[Ratzilla]

Steve, yes those are some of the ones in Dale's book. Yup, still got 'em, you don't dig stuff that old too often.

 

[baltbottles]

ORIGINAL: sandchip

Helluva pit!

I second that....

 

[cobaltbot]

Nice, learnt something from this one.