Picked up some more early green pontils..

[bne74honda]

Steve,

I posted this some time ago but here ya go...more pics...this is my favourite of the lot.

 

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[Steve/sewell]

Brian that bottle is a killer and I might know where it came from.......See this.....

 

[Steve/sewell]

Look ont the bottom of this bottle at the makers mark. The top on this bottle and yours were stalwarts at the United Glass Company (Wistarburgh) . Hundreds of tops matching your bottle and this one have been found all over the property making these type of bottles a product of the factory,not mere glass cullet.

 

[Steve/sewell]

Each bottle seems to have this letter C which I believe it is a makers mark. One of the glass company's operating out of the factory from 1739 to 1754 was one owned by Caspar Halter and Caspar Wistar. Caspar Wistar ran this Factory with separate companies sort of as a modern day General Motors except he ran it a helluva lot more efficiently.[8D] Could the C be the company of Caspar Halter...Could be,it would be a way to track output when competing with two other company's at the same time.

 

[bne74honda]

Great history and bottle but mine came from France. The similarities are striking and the dating seems about right. Gotta love those early pontils.

 

[Steve/sewell]

I am currently reading the life of Robert Morris Financier of the American Revolution. Morris was a great acquaintance of the Wistars on a personal and business level and his business partner was Thomas Willing of the famed Willing name in Philadelphia. They traded on an extensive level with France and it just so happened that France was a large Importer of Caribbean Rum which was bottled and shipped out of Philadelphia mainly at Willing and Morris. It is not out of the realm of possibilitity that your bottle began in New Jersey was shipped to France as a rum Import and wound up in Canada 65 years later.The liquor trade made Morris the most successful merchant in the mid to late 1700s in the colonies and the new United States.Neat conjecture to think about.