. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. Illustration 40.—Octagonal, pint-size beverage bottle. See figure 80. Half .size. (USNM ) borough (USNM , fig. 80, ill. 40) is 8 inches high, but bears no seal. Among the glass found at Marlborough arc also three bases and other fragments of similar bottles. SquARE "gin" bottles.—Square bottles, usually called "gin" botdcs, occur in the Marlborough material. Two base sections and lower pieces of the Ibt sides have been pardy restored (USNM , , ill. 41), and a neck and shoulder have sur- vived.
. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. Illustration 40.—Octagonal, pint-size beverage bottle. See figure 80. Half .size. (USNM ) borough (USNM , fig. 80, ill. 40) is 8 inches high, but bears no seal. Among the glass found at Marlborough arc also three bases and other fragments of similar bottles. SquARE "gin" bottles.—Square bottles, usually called "gin" botdcs, occur in the Marlborough material. Two base sections and lower pieces of the Ibt sides have been pardy restored (USNM , , ill. 41), and a neck and shoulder have sur- vived. The bases arc 4 inches square, and the whole bottles were probably about 10 inches high. They did not taper but maintained a continuous dimension from shoulder to base. The bases, which arc rounded on the corners, have a slightly domed kick-up with a ring-shaped pontil mark. The glass is olive green. The necks are squat—barely % inch—and have wide string rings midway in their length. Square "gin" bottles were designed for shipment in wooden boxes with compartments in which the bottles fit snugly. Although Dutch gin customarily was 150. Figure 80.—Oct.^, spirits bottle. shipped in botUes of this shape, indications are that the square bottles may have been used for other purposes than holding gin. For one thing, Mercer's ledgers mention no purchases of gin. There is, in fact, almost no exidence of the sale of gin in Virginia; a single announcement of Holland gin available in ^Villiamsburg in 1752 is the exception until 1773,. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original United States National Museum; Smithsonian Institution; United States. Dept. of the Interior. Washington : Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc. ]; for sale by the Supt. of Docs. , U. S. Govt Print. Off.
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