early soda water shard

[wolffbp]

I found this shard of a early soda water and need help identifying what bottle this is from. I suspect it's of NY origin and early 1840s vintage. Any help would be appreciated.
Brian

 

[wolffbp]

embossing

 

[sandchip]

Could the little c be the lower left part of an ampersand, like maybe "soda & mineral water"? Pretty piece of glass.

 

[wolffbp]

That would make sense but it doesn't appear as though that's what it is. It looks more like a small o.

 

[cowseatmaize]

I'm curious about the apostrophe. I see it but why?
Back to grammar school I guess.

 

[Steve/sewell]

It would be so much easier if you had found more letters.[]Vannah White from The Wheel of Fortune might be able to help?
What if it spelled -------------------------T SODA co.
----------------------------------------------- WATERTOWN
---------------------------------------------------- NEW YORK

 

[Steve/sewell]

This is close but not your bottle because of the T preceding the Word SODA.I do feel now the letter is an O as you have stated and probably does say
SODA OR MINERAL
------WATER

Now all you have to do is look for all the soda water bottles from New York state in the 1830 to 1860 time period that had this type of Lettered embossing in their descriptions.Good luck

 

[Steve/sewell]

Here is the picture I was trying to post.

 

[baltbottles]

I wonder if the letter T is the end of Patent as in Patent Soda Or Mineral Water. So it could be an unlisted Tueddle's variation.

Chris

 

[wolffbp]

Hey Steve, I think you might be on to something. The layout of the embossing would agree with SODA OR MINERAL with WATERS below. There also appears to be the bottom portion of a T as in TWEDLE at the top. Although there is no CELEBRATED and there's the T apostrophe thing. It could be an early variant of said bottle. I think your on the right track. []