tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28867370491840209922024-03-21T19:35:41.869-06:00Renaissance WomanUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger151125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2886737049184020992.post-32428108043335214692023-06-11T08:47:00.001-06:002023-06-11T08:47:12.536-06:00Recipes from the summer of '35<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhG9zIs9Cw91vgWZjbhwduW38wRMWx5kWvZLeR_xITBUMJsmkuZcYPfv9OwGW4GvrT1A7m2lPT_WsFTHjcpxk5D4NYbCAgKCq_421DStyf7xly0r-SflT6kPxeyNOTmcZziMrKUa8NlMxwvF0PT5548hNLDMGyU73tGQDGAihwbfmKsuZqSW5lVOQhs/s3134/Screen%20Shot%202023-06-11%20at%208.34.11%20AM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="526" data-original-width="3134" height="54" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhG9zIs9Cw91vgWZjbhwduW38wRMWx5kWvZLeR_xITBUMJsmkuZcYPfv9OwGW4GvrT1A7m2lPT_WsFTHjcpxk5D4NYbCAgKCq_421DStyf7xly0r-SflT6kPxeyNOTmcZziMrKUa8NlMxwvF0PT5548hNLDMGyU73tGQDGAihwbfmKsuZqSW5lVOQhs/s320/Screen%20Shot%202023-06-11%20at%208.34.11%20AM.png" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;">With the economy going the way it is, I thought looking back at some Depression Era recipes might help people save some money and maybe think about eating in a different way. It may also cause a laugh or two - which we can all use.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwUXzoMbesb-80fqJsFO6zSqHurnuCmYVsdKo3GdSWRc6ZNOnqzFzx01YiSb82xLRVakCbDXXawLYzx10CB1o5sC2UvmeW5aZOUn1LZW5DAwwQQgkt2AOWCI44T4uHqAnzHu4Ywl3J8X4Ykm12FYDYop-84p_0unRqqtsfy9b15zWq_3YD9e_CPjDE/s2836/Screen%20Shot%202023-06-11%20at%208.34.00%20AM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="198" data-original-width="2836" height="22" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwUXzoMbesb-80fqJsFO6zSqHurnuCmYVsdKo3GdSWRc6ZNOnqzFzx01YiSb82xLRVakCbDXXawLYzx10CB1o5sC2UvmeW5aZOUn1LZW5DAwwQQgkt2AOWCI44T4uHqAnzHu4Ywl3J8X4Ykm12FYDYop-84p_0unRqqtsfy9b15zWq_3YD9e_CPjDE/s320/Screen%20Shot%202023-06-11%20at%208.34.00%20AM.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p>So here are some examples from The Daily Province in Vancouver, British Columbia, printed 25 July. The weekly menu was suggested here:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_5iZOzw1Xdf72CdAuHAWhbXfvGTdqHESRDHAV9_IJGt8QDdX8vILf6Hjp7RQQSe73_3xDYXl7s39cUk9fsUiK1KnXMG4niGeml147ZdbVwFRH3zlaMwDlNidVuK6hdA_XJYzA5ZFphwjJ1BZzAsU6ysT3A4iFepU1ccA8wj2-tUWr4o3R5Hv8OKvZ/s1008/Screen%20Shot%202023-06-11%20at%208.36.25%20AM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1008" data-original-width="371" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_5iZOzw1Xdf72CdAuHAWhbXfvGTdqHESRDHAV9_IJGt8QDdX8vILf6Hjp7RQQSe73_3xDYXl7s39cUk9fsUiK1KnXMG4niGeml147ZdbVwFRH3zlaMwDlNidVuK6hdA_XJYzA5ZFphwjJ1BZzAsU6ysT3A4iFepU1ccA8wj2-tUWr4o3R5Hv8OKvZ/w237-h640/Screen%20Shot%202023-06-11%20at%208.36.25%20AM.png" width="237" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Just looking at the menu shows us how different things are now. This was meant for a housekeeper (whether a domestic goddess or hired staff).</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Here is one of the main dish recipes (Monday Supper) that we all might have the ingredients for: Scalloped Tuna Fish and Potatoes. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUn5E8GVyxlvjiMM-KFtEP8qb2PPDBVAM0rb2-BJUfgqtvs-jd1nmyqKMnZPuuM4rBNMeU0GVXe-aQokexBMAaFWbLVZBPSx2EOS2vltqq47ofcsFmMnFCrbMbKzrTM98iDFyO2Wr5SHfkF1yq6pBUJqbHPmgNA6nFXEGgwn6uIFDY7vJC9zSH-nlZ/s576/Screen%20Shot%202023-06-11%20at%208.42.24%20AM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="576" data-original-width="498" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUn5E8GVyxlvjiMM-KFtEP8qb2PPDBVAM0rb2-BJUfgqtvs-jd1nmyqKMnZPuuM4rBNMeU0GVXe-aQokexBMAaFWbLVZBPSx2EOS2vltqq47ofcsFmMnFCrbMbKzrTM98iDFyO2Wr5SHfkF1yq6pBUJqbHPmgNA6nFXEGgwn6uIFDY7vJC9zSH-nlZ/s320/Screen%20Shot%202023-06-11%20at%208.42.24%20AM.png" width="277" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2886737049184020992.post-38613736217649794832022-10-08T15:15:00.008-06:002022-10-13T14:23:38.704-06:00BC Distillery Company<p><span style="font-size: xx-small;">** all newspaper clippings are from <a href="http://newspapers.com">newspapers.com</a>. If you are doing serious historical research, I recommend paying for a subscription. It is absolutely invaluable.</span></p><p>The British Columbia Distillery Company of New Westminster, BC, was founded in 1903 before June 9 as the Vancouver Semi-Weekly World announced that day (p.5):</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRajiPwqKvwR85T7M2pyuVqXuyW3g1bEKPVbgnCJqOMdi3edi0hByPqI7MFSBmUEwEf5GTBPJSqSSIQd-cLb7i7nWMPoRWVljGlOEF2_bO6GwA8zhdTl7QdVyh5kkGP7b0rQQsgpyJh0U1yvU4cHC2rcLLL9foEXIS3QIccmVyxIE1hZ2fqOFci5Ff/s1382/Screen%20Shot%202022-10-08%20at%201.02.27%20PM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="360" data-original-width="1382" height="166" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRajiPwqKvwR85T7M2pyuVqXuyW3g1bEKPVbgnCJqOMdi3edi0hByPqI7MFSBmUEwEf5GTBPJSqSSIQd-cLb7i7nWMPoRWVljGlOEF2_bO6GwA8zhdTl7QdVyh5kkGP7b0rQQsgpyJh0U1yvU4cHC2rcLLL9foEXIS3QIccmVyxIE1hZ2fqOFci5Ff/w640-h166/Screen%20Shot%202022-10-08%20at%201.02.27%20PM.png" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">It was touted as British Columbia's first distillery (<i>Chilliwack Progress</i> December 17, 1952 p.10), undoubtedly, there had been stills in the province for decades, but this was the first official one.</div><p>By 1910 BCDC was well established in Sappertown, and supplied products throughout BC, the Yukon, Western Canada, and the U.S., as well as "... the remotest ends of the earth and especially into every part of civilization where rye whiskey is appreciated." (B. C. Saturday Sunset, New Westminster, July 10, 1910:54).</p><p>During World War I, the British Columbia Distillery apparently sent whisky to Scotland and France (or at least they were looking into it):</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1XvVdzUoKdpOcwjGHFZarKIsAx047TD9b_jVUitBjTim-_tlo9pihtE01RxycClCZ8R1HaDXA6dZBVrdfp2hZtQJf-DNpXRup7TtwcMkb3f7YyNMdkt1wb3L1MNfXP18_EU5WpaW9yL0YadjvnNO9paykgDiPrAJqeP703O5IxM_e7YMI1Ghy-fOz/s1754/Daily%20news%20Advertiser%20March%208,%201916%20p6%20Vancouver%20BCDC.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1754" data-original-width="1172" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1XvVdzUoKdpOcwjGHFZarKIsAx047TD9b_jVUitBjTim-_tlo9pihtE01RxycClCZ8R1HaDXA6dZBVrdfp2hZtQJf-DNpXRup7TtwcMkb3f7YyNMdkt1wb3L1MNfXP18_EU5WpaW9yL0YadjvnNO9paykgDiPrAJqeP703O5IxM_e7YMI1Ghy-fOz/w428-h640/Daily%20news%20Advertiser%20March%208,%201916%20p6%20Vancouver%20BCDC.png" width="428" /></a></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">On October 1, 1917, British Columbia went mostly dry. Every bar, brewery, and distillery were prohibited from selling liquor within the province. Consumers could still import alcohol and the makers could export if they had a market, and there were exemptions for medical, dental, religious and other uses, but essentially the province went dry. “Except as provided by this Act, no person shall, within the province … expose for sale … sell or barter, or offer to sell or barter … or at the time of the transfer of any property or thing give to any other person any liquor” (Vancouver Daily World, September 29, 1917). After a federal order-in-council effective April 1, 1918, importation was not allowed until a year after the war was over (ended up being January 1, 1920). In theory, therefore, BC was completely dry from April 1, 1918 to January 1, 1920 (https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/56370353.pdf).</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">And, indeed, a newspaper article from a South Carolina in 1919 explains that the B.C. Distillery Company sent Mr. M. McCideel to the Orient to scout for business in the Far East:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGsr6TUhi0k_Dxx741fOnnxqpzPqdeAInrOtLGK1mUNdXJwXlC66HI3oPMW4tIcNCTMdxJPsf3bk62INQQm9Aux6jStT9NaStpGJrsA85NE3Lu0ZDT8PTt-Ee3sM7u45xeNeePCFHl8-7CqYeMSkyoARd02D_oQxLD9j2S0AeGn1ypDKS6HL42SsKO/s1952/Edgefield%20Advertiser%20November%2019,%201919,%20p4%20BCDC%20a.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1952" data-original-width="940" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGsr6TUhi0k_Dxx741fOnnxqpzPqdeAInrOtLGK1mUNdXJwXlC66HI3oPMW4tIcNCTMdxJPsf3bk62INQQm9Aux6jStT9NaStpGJrsA85NE3Lu0ZDT8PTt-Ee3sM7u45xeNeePCFHl8-7CqYeMSkyoARd02D_oQxLD9j2S0AeGn1ypDKS6HL42SsKO/w309-h640/Edgefield%20Advertiser%20November%2019,%201919,%20p4%20BCDC%20a.png" width="309" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I don't know how successful they were with this business in the Far East or if the Scotland/France thing worked out, but they survived the war and Prohibition and were one of the first Distilleries to get a government license in 1921 after the Liquor Control Board was formed that year (<a href="https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/bcsessional/items/1.0225847?o=0">https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/bcsessional/items/1.0225847?o=0</a>).</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Bottle shapes and sizes changed over the years. The ads below show the variation between the 1920s and the 1940s. Also, this Vancouver Museum bottle shows what is possibly a bottle from the 1920s as it shares a label with the 1924 ad (also see the "24" cut into the label upper left) and was made in an Owens machine which was patented in 1904 (<a href="https://5111.sydneyplus.com/argus/final/portal.aspx?lang=en-CA">https://5111.sydneyplus.com/argus/final/portal.aspx?lang=en-CA</a>) (as of the October 10, 2022, the museum website has incorrect information about the bottle and the company - I have shared this post with them).</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWz8IsqCm457CwB7rMOMgJu6ru4oDD2FM1y5vtFJilGUkLnmVpMmAYa3RkdzgAANgVBNGCGuk5j652KKKVbPWZSqVJ8V6NyWLBqVT49LVeka5r7XXamUdqSts4O3uz1bsxtMX4CdH77PuXRbEW7xqo9YpPtTeYVYC9jzXARRzVXBFIPSKoO2oLxG3U/s723/Screen%20Shot%202022-10-10%20at%2012.23.48%20PM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="723" data-original-width="357" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWz8IsqCm457CwB7rMOMgJu6ru4oDD2FM1y5vtFJilGUkLnmVpMmAYa3RkdzgAANgVBNGCGuk5j652KKKVbPWZSqVJ8V6NyWLBqVT49LVeka5r7XXamUdqSts4O3uz1bsxtMX4CdH77PuXRbEW7xqo9YpPtTeYVYC9jzXARRzVXBFIPSKoO2oLxG3U/w316-h640/Screen%20Shot%202022-10-10%20at%2012.23.48%20PM.png" width="316" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">A 1923 ad shows them marketing Caledonia Whisky (malted barley) and Rye Whisky:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_5wsgC9bofwbawCqizy-WxHxU9K-jJ8xEFScK8OI6PbJHOvxNGjYJ6n-HbAEF0v7nQA1XFxt-9u5d18m_M5d4bgUpqhg9aNtvgIkq19iLScokfHhSLDKe8lhGpg7GTJ4ZPDbLkOqo5YGp_IGGBn0I-7CFa7smueDKhFHx7BNIz91KSUMT4nGmZjCy/s755/Screen%20Shot%202022-10-10%20at%2010.42.57%20AM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="755" data-original-width="461" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_5wsgC9bofwbawCqizy-WxHxU9K-jJ8xEFScK8OI6PbJHOvxNGjYJ6n-HbAEF0v7nQA1XFxt-9u5d18m_M5d4bgUpqhg9aNtvgIkq19iLScokfHhSLDKe8lhGpg7GTJ4ZPDbLkOqo5YGp_IGGBn0I-7CFa7smueDKhFHx7BNIz91KSUMT4nGmZjCy/w390-h640/Screen%20Shot%202022-10-10%20at%2010.42.57%20AM.png" width="390" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">This ad is from 1924 showing their label on a Rye (or Canadian) Whisky bottle:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_2dA-cr4Q26CkzwPAbFcbLXR2sbOOC7v6ORaLh0TjoX75XSuaGLx1Bx9sITqeecwCwAfwpmR6WhB3_ScjBwSA18usm2bT7-1WEYCjyxkciWtepDZmfZNZ3GSqNr7CKqz_Z_6L6RzfYA68kqKzeJNLsHXB8adHDB3_LTkmMOgAThdjNT_C9xSO1M3E/s787/Screen%20Shot%202022-10-10%20at%2011.15.30%20AM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="787" data-original-width="512" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_2dA-cr4Q26CkzwPAbFcbLXR2sbOOC7v6ORaLh0TjoX75XSuaGLx1Bx9sITqeecwCwAfwpmR6WhB3_ScjBwSA18usm2bT7-1WEYCjyxkciWtepDZmfZNZ3GSqNr7CKqz_Z_6L6RzfYA68kqKzeJNLsHXB8adHDB3_LTkmMOgAThdjNT_C9xSO1M3E/w416-h640/Screen%20Shot%202022-10-10%20at%2011.15.30%20AM.png" width="416" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">And a similar ad with same label from 1927:</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPEb7X9IXBi1CK7Wlz11Jbm9cy_OihVpgvYBES0nxBeWVaRJXHCqCZDgxGMUJ9IFmjVfFWAtIp9xPjiXfWkUYfl-NXzGgbUFJzBJ5ED8u6iEt4bWiI7sLA2Nft8cv9yy9r8XkBBbgYoXgAY1hdKnbBb6y3HxMq1-Z-yB0Js9dhw24b0vax7K9G31jq/s818/Screen%20Shot%202022-10-10%20at%2010.51.57%20AM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="797" data-original-width="818" height="624" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPEb7X9IXBi1CK7Wlz11Jbm9cy_OihVpgvYBES0nxBeWVaRJXHCqCZDgxGMUJ9IFmjVfFWAtIp9xPjiXfWkUYfl-NXzGgbUFJzBJ5ED8u6iEt4bWiI7sLA2Nft8cv9yy9r8XkBBbgYoXgAY1hdKnbBb6y3HxMq1-Z-yB0Js9dhw24b0vax7K9G31jq/w640-h624/Screen%20Shot%202022-10-10%20at%2010.51.57%20AM.png" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Ads from 1936 and 1938 show the range of bottle shapes and sizes:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhymtzqB4uwCAnAitJ5pikO5HvxAPfl2iWlPsAzmnyu9KzvzffzM6nhtHmAvs5M6sHnE7FAj07k1BLQXokIumlfrCwBM7OgnIQZ8uMHuZFF-A9Rv3-iVPoX6AlVpqawUbMSj2KC9dNswvhmxE4R8reFx1R8DghHODZC6YBZMlq7Nsf8rvsp95bkfHwH/s869/Screen%20Shot%202022-10-10%20at%2012.09.49%20PM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="757" data-original-width="869" height="558" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhymtzqB4uwCAnAitJ5pikO5HvxAPfl2iWlPsAzmnyu9KzvzffzM6nhtHmAvs5M6sHnE7FAj07k1BLQXokIumlfrCwBM7OgnIQZ8uMHuZFF-A9Rv3-iVPoX6AlVpqawUbMSj2KC9dNswvhmxE4R8reFx1R8DghHODZC6YBZMlq7Nsf8rvsp95bkfHwH/w640-h558/Screen%20Shot%202022-10-10%20at%2012.09.49%20PM.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiX-oxptlJZ0SCyd3hbmuULgm_FCd5oqwjzub1ff8GVSDjZpLYDXV_9IkO4b2JWI_dsDp2nQmDlYKMX-8HJXPC9WRKk1ykAWIp8ozGKXLpfBWLiI6CxpDfiF5u6outrW3Wkd8E4eJI7bsGiTGUfSeVCnwS0GyjzqGljwDhJtdhSkdbANrXM3d4Vzi6g/s1339/Screen%20Shot%202022-10-10%20at%2012.11.59%20PM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="594" data-original-width="1339" height="284" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiX-oxptlJZ0SCyd3hbmuULgm_FCd5oqwjzub1ff8GVSDjZpLYDXV_9IkO4b2JWI_dsDp2nQmDlYKMX-8HJXPC9WRKk1ykAWIp8ozGKXLpfBWLiI6CxpDfiF5u6outrW3Wkd8E4eJI7bsGiTGUfSeVCnwS0GyjzqGljwDhJtdhSkdbANrXM3d4Vzi6g/w640-h284/Screen%20Shot%202022-10-10%20at%2012.11.59%20PM.png" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The British Columbia Distilling Company was bought out by Seagrams in 1941:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLKnKItembfyU1pu7Sy8pJ2hHNs8kxTB-jW4xld3twpDa23cysDJVfIQbPvUTrVvXM6WILEdweL7XmZUzC5XW-le4QmLRSKAFzGvHbpN2Ya5vMCCnFJhgVqId9MZIqYs9jayMZwSAe6a7ffUY5_0J3IC036j0VnT4IPxzkYwFTkfZnqffPsJg17tF1/s1868/Screen%20Shot%202022-10-10%20at%2012.16.38%20PM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1868" data-original-width="1010" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLKnKItembfyU1pu7Sy8pJ2hHNs8kxTB-jW4xld3twpDa23cysDJVfIQbPvUTrVvXM6WILEdweL7XmZUzC5XW-le4QmLRSKAFzGvHbpN2Ya5vMCCnFJhgVqId9MZIqYs9jayMZwSAe6a7ffUY5_0J3IC036j0VnT4IPxzkYwFTkfZnqffPsJg17tF1/w346-h640/Screen%20Shot%202022-10-10%20at%2012.16.38%20PM.png" width="346" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><p style="text-align: left;">The BCDC bottles by the 1940s had changed from the old whisky style bottles of the 1920s to most of the products being in the 1930s-style flask-shaped bottle: The Grand Forks Gazette December 19, 1940:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMG7u7dHCCXwl7KkqjJi31bNFzxNEJr6PK-0aYA1t1xn-xGCMUHki7p_6B-RWR8q83BzTxdCnpDXNGH2lvL01WL_vxCkwxFYmFwHXdgI4x8C28QduJHbUkMT8hSG5gxSYv3RJPmZAMMFkDOR9BdMDNz33i7iGh-KCzsV1FhisWF0KhXTJb6InS3AFI/s820/Grand%20Forks%20december%2019%201940%20p%204.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="728" data-original-width="820" height="355" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMG7u7dHCCXwl7KkqjJi31bNFzxNEJr6PK-0aYA1t1xn-xGCMUHki7p_6B-RWR8q83BzTxdCnpDXNGH2lvL01WL_vxCkwxFYmFwHXdgI4x8C28QduJHbUkMT8hSG5gxSYv3RJPmZAMMFkDOR9BdMDNz33i7iGh-KCzsV1FhisWF0KhXTJb6InS3AFI/w400-h355/Grand%20Forks%20december%2019%201940%20p%204.png" width="400" /></a></div><p></p></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The distillery was quite large by 1927 (sorry for the quality) (photo from the New Westminster Archives item 3368):</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-adscDho__JOux03fBq-x-kge3TClcJjgQtgsWXCV7NJ-k-5OObh3-_zFhYv2srFEHBTyf0yNbVV8IP5ZQynEWvFotgtU508Hmfxix6VtP5Sf-JiJIed1DAw57P0uwranYjXp6E0DlX61VHPTioXXf7jSrGNObDLJ7jGKZ5dkcCNlA6gc2v1hlUtz/s445/2588%20new%20west%20archives%201927%20BCDC%20in%20middle.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="254" data-original-width="445" height="366" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-adscDho__JOux03fBq-x-kge3TClcJjgQtgsWXCV7NJ-k-5OObh3-_zFhYv2srFEHBTyf0yNbVV8IP5ZQynEWvFotgtU508Hmfxix6VtP5Sf-JiJIed1DAw57P0uwranYjXp6E0DlX61VHPTioXXf7jSrGNObDLJ7jGKZ5dkcCNlA6gc2v1hlUtz/w640-h366/2588%20new%20west%20archives%201927%20BCDC%20in%20middle.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">And even larger by1947 from: <a href="http://vintageairphotos.com/shop/?prodid=20">http://vintageairphotos.com/shop/?prodid=20</a> </div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTYeDj1ltnm7EWW4bpjcfDkf59UajDwIShQ2_U7bnDG8l-e63d7GDCu47ezbSI3gPQ_LdO3uI7dimRGMfNvkoVHLu95P5zLNDPQGr_y4tZof3nuSGWbpuqkEZ2Al7TtMQ-3bKECejDFySaKcE2irtWCrMtvM9jsZQAsFCfyg_GjHqE4ZdG_d9r_SmR/s600/vintageairphotos(dot)com%20BO_47_604%201947.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="458" data-original-width="600" height="488" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTYeDj1ltnm7EWW4bpjcfDkf59UajDwIShQ2_U7bnDG8l-e63d7GDCu47ezbSI3gPQ_LdO3uI7dimRGMfNvkoVHLu95P5zLNDPQGr_y4tZof3nuSGWbpuqkEZ2Al7TtMQ-3bKECejDFySaKcE2irtWCrMtvM9jsZQAsFCfyg_GjHqE4ZdG_d9r_SmR/w640-h488/vintageairphotos(dot)com%20BO_47_604%201947.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">By 1967, you can see that two larger buildings (upper left) have been added as well as some changes in the upper right (this was a very poor quality aerial photo from https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/data/geographic-data-services/digital-imagery/air-photos. I improved it as much as I could):</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjl4tk3txrAN5vKlZDW5mbox73MElKH3nsupILoF1gnIwFTwr0pNECUaVQCMXkteSdya31KWe7jl98AMZumoBPEeMolfFJI7Bn1NpYY0D1EQULjxMeuEcKM2mv3sOk_BiMKujufOh0bPQhV3S6pLiQ2j1WGTJx692jMfpDtqJ6QLjDxrLYfOZ1AmNsp/s1205/1967%20aerial%20photo%20BCDC.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1205" data-original-width="1109" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjl4tk3txrAN5vKlZDW5mbox73MElKH3nsupILoF1gnIwFTwr0pNECUaVQCMXkteSdya31KWe7jl98AMZumoBPEeMolfFJI7Bn1NpYY0D1EQULjxMeuEcKM2mv3sOk_BiMKujufOh0bPQhV3S6pLiQ2j1WGTJx692jMfpDtqJ6QLjDxrLYfOZ1AmNsp/w369-h400/1967%20aerial%20photo%20BCDC.jpg" width="369" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">By the 1950s, the BCDC was a truly international business:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpg_oOBYHf5r72DZ6Igk__nMAiAWZ6eAp0Vk2aW2RaPnEHsbZyjQxeat0iqWCw6BAMWaaO4dIKiRxGHlxwOygLpTgNzoWYicwxvFNZ5CBQGApAHtky2_9dZ6A32uPIk7xz2917u7q5qZ-lP52qTFJ3zzG3jALCNXsxAGlPSYdshAt16DNHWPR3ozpM/s981/Screen%20Shot%202022-10-10%20at%2012.04.57%20PM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="824" data-original-width="981" height="538" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpg_oOBYHf5r72DZ6Igk__nMAiAWZ6eAp0Vk2aW2RaPnEHsbZyjQxeat0iqWCw6BAMWaaO4dIKiRxGHlxwOygLpTgNzoWYicwxvFNZ5CBQGApAHtky2_9dZ6A32uPIk7xz2917u7q5qZ-lP52qTFJ3zzG3jALCNXsxAGlPSYdshAt16DNHWPR3ozpM/w640-h538/Screen%20Shot%202022-10-10%20at%2012.04.57%20PM.png" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;">I was gifted this bottle by a friend and colleague who lives in BC. I have no provenience for it, and no firm date. It was made by the Dominion Glass Co. as evidenced by the D in the diamond on the right hand side of the base. That mark was apparently first used in 1913, but the trademark on the base of the bottle indicates it is post-1921 (see below). I could not find trademark information for the BCDC in the crest or BCD in script in the circle - although they both should be in the trademark database, they are not. It does appear to have been made by a fully automatic machine but not an Owens (Owens dominated the market between the mid 1910s and through the early 1930s), and shares shape and style with the 1930s and 40s bottles.</span></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgt9_GWbhp4m9F5UZcQwB9kIv0ppI7rAYu3vb-gt6-21fiRgCNwd9JguTiN35R__JjGtgwUbhUk4zwc01IPGWdOQyDb9ocbeKwR8N5KkyaEI6zaxm5vecvUDYQUqlJ_spH7-OnlD7792ue1ZGH-la9egsfurBIiEIYUiPcAdE9iwxbq0ahWXBnWELlz/s900/Mine%20BCD%20IMG_8702%20crop%20colour%20size.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="385" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgt9_GWbhp4m9F5UZcQwB9kIv0ppI7rAYu3vb-gt6-21fiRgCNwd9JguTiN35R__JjGtgwUbhUk4zwc01IPGWdOQyDb9ocbeKwR8N5KkyaEI6zaxm5vecvUDYQUqlJ_spH7-OnlD7792ue1ZGH-la9egsfurBIiEIYUiPcAdE9iwxbq0ahWXBnWELlz/w171-h400/Mine%20BCD%20IMG_8702%20crop%20colour%20size.jpg" width="171" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWOHDqZDlghJqwRGmRGiaCazQazb6LciaO8O-a4gE7slnwk84KezTlOgRnbD1gToP_SKAIyvZEOpK9TPmorOXmCE4oqvBgNb8Hq1N6sYivlBh8mG0yPhYr4KZPM8q4zMGTuhCtNw5p8nNOcdOFB0GEgQHaQMA31ad8eD3FGsD1V7nGy_jKnc0v7AbX/s900/Mine%20BCD%20IMG_8703%20crop%20colour%20size.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="663" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWOHDqZDlghJqwRGmRGiaCazQazb6LciaO8O-a4gE7slnwk84KezTlOgRnbD1gToP_SKAIyvZEOpK9TPmorOXmCE4oqvBgNb8Hq1N6sYivlBh8mG0yPhYr4KZPM8q4zMGTuhCtNw5p8nNOcdOFB0GEgQHaQMA31ad8eD3FGsD1V7nGy_jKnc0v7AbX/s320/Mine%20BCD%20IMG_8703%20crop%20colour%20size.jpg" width="236" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMIsggexyom2htGvN0Zc66DSA4JnAqcNBjUqFfHPO9oyk91tQk-Yp0TF7rL_u-wFNbXWb6gtHdHzT_y-zpPJJEiHq322vaqQsRVmVfd6shxDuspBmOpVAwmZsN6bRey0bwzepkCOmcBThnkbEY_Gp_WwOb7rLSiKiNPmPESiNKI8xl-15Xb6qi2ghi/s750/Mine%20BCD%20IMG_8704%20crop%20colour%20size.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="750" data-original-width="665" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMIsggexyom2htGvN0Zc66DSA4JnAqcNBjUqFfHPO9oyk91tQk-Yp0TF7rL_u-wFNbXWb6gtHdHzT_y-zpPJJEiHq322vaqQsRVmVfd6shxDuspBmOpVAwmZsN6bRey0bwzepkCOmcBThnkbEY_Gp_WwOb7rLSiKiNPmPESiNKI8xl-15Xb6qi2ghi/s320/Mine%20BCD%20IMG_8704%20crop%20colour%20size.jpg" width="284" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNDHGaYxatxm8zbFi8R_VUm_erKovfuev2wiaHQeyvdXMB1V1lcnqdTi7iyKg7NSUMA0qHAsFeFS7Scs_Kqs69dN2qbq9yAs0Uqo6L9yppj6guq8m_AVw7cBXclApvufQKw66mvxv0Uo9kd8BhCjGGqkRkf9-LhP_aN2-t5LkGtyBqkGyN0KxJm6ez/s600/Mine%20BCDC%20IMG_8718%20crop%20colour%20size.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="450" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNDHGaYxatxm8zbFi8R_VUm_erKovfuev2wiaHQeyvdXMB1V1lcnqdTi7iyKg7NSUMA0qHAsFeFS7Scs_Kqs69dN2qbq9yAs0Uqo6L9yppj6guq8m_AVw7cBXclApvufQKw66mvxv0Uo9kd8BhCjGGqkRkf9-LhP_aN2-t5LkGtyBqkGyN0KxJm6ez/w480-h640/Mine%20BCDC%20IMG_8718%20crop%20colour%20size.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">This mark on the bottom of the bottle (a circle with a diagonal line through it) was a trade mark registered by the British Columbia Distillery Company on November 11, 1921. It was renewed in 1977, and was expunged (on a failure to renew) on June 3, 1994 (<span style="caret-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; text-align: start; text-size-adjust: auto;"><a href="http://www.ic.gc.ca/app/opic-cipo/trdmrks/srch/viewTrademark?id=0136932&tab=reg&lang=eng">http://www.ic.gc.ca/app/opic-cipo/trdmrks/srch/viewTrademark?id=0136932&tab=reg&lang=eng</a></span>).</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">BCDC in a shield was definitely in use by 1941, but I cannot find an original trademark for it specifically (<span style="caret-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><a href="http://www.ic.gc.ca/app/opic-cipo/trdmrks/srch/viewTrademark?id=0179311&tab=reg&lang=eng">http://www.ic.gc.ca/app/opic-cipo/trdmrks/srch/viewTrademark?id=0179311&tab=reg&lang=eng</a>)</span>. </div><p>The Bakelite cap reads "Hiram Walker & Sons Ltd". I don't think it is original to the bottle as I have found no evidence of the BCDC producing whisky for Hiram Walkers. But I could very well be wrong (the cap fits the bottle very well). Hiram Walker & Sons of Windsor, Ontario, registered this trademark on June 14, 1887 (<span style="caret-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><a href="http://www.ic.gc.ca/app/opic-cipo/trdmrks/srch/viewTrademark?id=0012148&tab=reg&lang=eng">http://www.ic.gc.ca/app/opic-cipo/trdmrks/srch/viewTrademark?id=0012148&tab=reg&lang=eng</a>)</span>. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOd1K9PWQ24NR47ZWiaP87BUNoWZXfnVy385fBppHySsRqZXMxQJqkq8hN-5c1-xLefb7iWGBGArlowxoeDnONGjQQGTSv9YZBZQMy9H7Jd6CiyEeh7fsJ7qK8Rasx37cmdjqapz3gcGwm7I3N702LtkjfUJRm2pfLV5Vgz3U9TmVJF0T6kwSBQSaQ/s607/Mine%20BCDC%20Hiram%20Walker%20Cap%20IMG_8721%20crop%20colour%20size.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="607" height="395" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOd1K9PWQ24NR47ZWiaP87BUNoWZXfnVy385fBppHySsRqZXMxQJqkq8hN-5c1-xLefb7iWGBGArlowxoeDnONGjQQGTSv9YZBZQMy9H7Jd6CiyEeh7fsJ7qK8Rasx37cmdjqapz3gcGwm7I3N702LtkjfUJRm2pfLV5Vgz3U9TmVJF0T6kwSBQSaQ/w400-h395/Mine%20BCDC%20Hiram%20Walker%20Cap%20IMG_8721%20crop%20colour%20size.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2886737049184020992.post-19648971303988592112022-08-22T11:44:00.006-06:002022-08-25T14:32:07.314-06:00Finish Forming Tools<p> A neighbour the other day asked me to look at a cool bottle she had in her house. It was a Ricketts' bottle, made in the three-piece mould that transformed the bottle making industry starting in the 1820s. Olive Jones, in 1982, wrote an article called "The Contribution of the Ricketts' Mold To the Manufacture of the English 'Wine' Bottle, 1820-1850." It had been found on a beach in Europe somewhere.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiobDOdTEJN1R6EV2G_o3JqdUr3XGUh1G__I-mIhsw7vgwi9WLQumcw6dqFcGXnCEfnTysMNVHQqBfvsaBk6rino8gzAoA7aErf-VX59xUb1CG8HMWW_-aaeYJ0jQ68zqZGh0tWM4gOpuZvjetoxClFWlc5mif_cB_TPXRgc_MZtHD83_n9rqAne0Sw/s3825/Laurelle's%20bottle%20IMG_8303%20crop%20colour.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3825" data-original-width="1174" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiobDOdTEJN1R6EV2G_o3JqdUr3XGUh1G__I-mIhsw7vgwi9WLQumcw6dqFcGXnCEfnTysMNVHQqBfvsaBk6rino8gzAoA7aErf-VX59xUb1CG8HMWW_-aaeYJ0jQ68zqZGh0tWM4gOpuZvjetoxClFWlc5mif_cB_TPXRgc_MZtHD83_n9rqAne0Sw/w123-h400/Laurelle's%20bottle%20IMG_8303%20crop%20colour.jpg" width="123" /></a></div><p>Before Ricketts' mould, bottle makers had been using a "dip mould." This was a mould that would have been shaped like a large cup - and that helped make bottles a more standard size. The body of the bottle was made in the dip mould, but the rest of the bottle was shaped by hand. The shoulder, neck, and finish of the bottles were, therefore, not very uniform and often had a bulge where the top of the dip mould ended.</p><p>Henry Ricketts, in 1821, patented the first mould that shaped not only the body of the bottle, but also the shoulder and neck. It added two parts that were hinged to the top of a dip mould. The mould created very distinctive mould seams - one running around the circumference of the bottle just below the shoulder and two going up opposite sides of the shoulder and neck. Patents at that time (before the Patent Law Amendment Act of 1852) were a complicated and expensive endeavour. So Ricketts might have been using this type of mould for some time before actually patenting it. However, the best date we have for the bottle is 1821.</p><p>So when I looked at my neighbour's bottle, I knew exactly what type of mould it was made in. I also noticed that the finish was made with a finishing tool. I don't remember all the dates for every patent off the top of my head, so I looked up Jones' article. And then I tried to find information on the use of the finishing tool.</p><p>My go-to place is always the SHA bottle research page. Unfortunately, I landed on the place, apparently, and found one section that stated that the earliest tooled finishes were likely in the 1870s or before. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBUNrarfjxH0_6ga3IyIdyGZmrXm-CkPunhH2P2wonEjhGQZjYnG0DM94pGKVjb8eMh4ScE4y3RnKGoB5sikIz27ONue8c4lbVY6-P7B-DT9pCmJ61hvo3Ki1VjSbxinWZ-YgS9H_d4S7K1GHOfkCZVNP83FezfPx42crIi8WMVMAz94wWEn3lN19w/s1514/Screen%20Shot%202022-08-22%20at%2011.46.11%20AM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="476" data-original-width="1514" height="126" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBUNrarfjxH0_6ga3IyIdyGZmrXm-CkPunhH2P2wonEjhGQZjYnG0DM94pGKVjb8eMh4ScE4y3RnKGoB5sikIz27ONue8c4lbVY6-P7B-DT9pCmJ61hvo3Ki1VjSbxinWZ-YgS9H_d4S7K1GHOfkCZVNP83FezfPx42crIi8WMVMAz94wWEn3lN19w/w400-h126/Screen%20Shot%202022-08-22%20at%2011.46.11%20AM.png" width="400" /></a></div><p>I also looked at the publication "Baffle Marks and Pontil Scars" which states that: "the changeover from applied finishes to tooled finishes appears to have been in the 1880s, with a large majority of bottles produced after 1890 exhibiting this finishing method" (p.38). They also state tat hand-tooled finishes are pretty much non-existent on bottles from the 1910-early 1920s period.</p><p>This all seemed late to me. So I did a little more digging on the google patent search page. The earliest US patent I could find was <a href="https://patents.google.com/patent/US13402A/en?q=bottle+tool&before=priority:18600101&after=priority:17900101&sort=old" target="_blank">No. 13,402 by A. Stone in August, 1855</a>. Within the patent Stone stated that he had invented "certain new and useful improvements" on finish forming tools. This indicates that finish making tools had been in use before 1855 because these were improvements on tools that were commonly used.</p><p>A <a href="https://winehistoryproject.org/crown-lipping-or-finishing-tool-for-bottlemaking/" target="_blank">The Wine History Project</a> states that the tools were first used in the 1830s in England and in the 1850s in the US - no sources are provided, but they may have been looking at the patents - or another source that looked at them. </p><p>Of course, today I looked again and the SHA page has <a href="https://sha.org/bottle/finishes.htm#Primary%20Methods%20of%20Finishing%20a%20Bottle" target="_blank">different i</a>nformation further down that states 1855 or earlier - looking at the same patent I found. They also show a finishing tool from 1842. So there has been some sort of tool for forming a symmetrical finish on a bottle since at least 1842.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSEt7wSoF2l_qOz-PGjrfwxqFZDGvTIY4v3TewAEerY6XaXX2SaZ4hfp9o2ZvC7_8UA-pECrKwtyWSRLbyDIE0JTetSj041orcMoSgKO0zyzKTuy45j_DOgx-jSPqcU5qa5kxbJPflNGxL4z4K6POYWTEsAUZFUIZJqetLuOmS0DfZVbE7osZ0c54A/s1486/Screen%20Shot%202022-08-22%20at%2011.48.09%20AM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="428" data-original-width="1486" height="115" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSEt7wSoF2l_qOz-PGjrfwxqFZDGvTIY4v3TewAEerY6XaXX2SaZ4hfp9o2ZvC7_8UA-pECrKwtyWSRLbyDIE0JTetSj041orcMoSgKO0zyzKTuy45j_DOgx-jSPqcU5qa5kxbJPflNGxL4z4K6POYWTEsAUZFUIZJqetLuOmS0DfZVbE7osZ0c54A/w400-h115/Screen%20Shot%202022-08-22%20at%2011.48.09%20AM.png" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Lesson learned - keep reading. It would have saved me time searching patents.</div><p>But this is just in the United States. The British Patent Office does not have their early patents online yet. I assume that there will be earlier patents from that side of the Atlantic Ocean since the Wine History Project stated the 1830s. Anybody want to fund my trip to London??</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2886737049184020992.post-84138429765576175982022-08-17T13:51:00.002-06:002022-08-17T13:51:14.922-06:00A Few Notes on French-Made Perrier Bottles<p> In this collection from False Creek that I've been studying, I've noticed a couple of things about French-made bottles.</p><p>It appears that the French didn't like to have mould seams on their bottles. There is evidence on at least some of them that they either used turn moulds or they heat-treated their bottles after they were made to remove the seams. This is only an hypothesis. And as of yet I have no proof.</p><p>But here is a Perrier bottle. Perrier in 1910 got Owens Machines with which to make their bottles. The feathered scar on the bottom is the telling characteristic of Owens machines.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1QvM7W1K6EfRBXomFl6EHs4FDMspYOyg9PG1qcGnfzsKiiSSVLTiXPAEOf_1i-Izrjm6js6vV4PrwcUKGzYVHevriVWrXaZjMIHh8Nl0qK6cMz9TtgguyjisIyfmZc_3f7-2ZEx63ppYFTPkipocQXaefiy9ZZJtsqMOWM-kRooy65y9WdMFtaCHs/s3378/001%20IMG_8274%20crop%20colour.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3378" data-original-width="1234" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1QvM7W1K6EfRBXomFl6EHs4FDMspYOyg9PG1qcGnfzsKiiSSVLTiXPAEOf_1i-Izrjm6js6vV4PrwcUKGzYVHevriVWrXaZjMIHh8Nl0qK6cMz9TtgguyjisIyfmZc_3f7-2ZEx63ppYFTPkipocQXaefiy9ZZJtsqMOWM-kRooy65y9WdMFtaCHs/w146-h400/001%20IMG_8274%20crop%20colour.jpg" width="146" /></a> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijpfgBUB29Qx6SyM8UbyMfpKGIVevy3YuoD3MKjJd068SsJLn237LetMYUAJlYORmT6rx8_s90Cs9mhr6AmO2D4OYd1pkfrVQKUV4_45OOzM26uHLqbkHixbuYR9XjC3kDtmBAZjdleGSaHar7Nn_F1aGsS98Kr9wovfSktLBa6YMg9mVVDwbLh87G/s4032/IMG_8281%20crop%20colour.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijpfgBUB29Qx6SyM8UbyMfpKGIVevy3YuoD3MKjJd068SsJLn237LetMYUAJlYORmT6rx8_s90Cs9mhr6AmO2D4OYd1pkfrVQKUV4_45OOzM26uHLqbkHixbuYR9XjC3kDtmBAZjdleGSaHar7Nn_F1aGsS98Kr9wovfSktLBa6YMg9mVVDwbLh87G/s320/IMG_8281%20crop%20colour.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;">This bottle is also from Perrier, but my hypothesis is that it looks like heat-treated may have been applied after production to remove mould seams and blur the feathered Owens scar. The Owens scar is maybe a bit of a stretch, but the mould seams definitely look like they've been mostly obliterated.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQ0MGG6_ZusW1P6EBYFDKMWgjCUyuCIfUms0d69YNiPjIeSmNut0O1bYGMsAMmmAOmI-n6pEpERyFIEuWSWUvDvWZX9h8cwHAFIT79oR7a7bFRwzMacxGtHgSh08dlQHIDEKfoWC6fCWJYI6Va8HfKXuvapUNZ2u5VLou2PmxhOQgwwN6N18Y7aHcH/s600/40%20IMG_6088%20crop%20colour%20size**.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="282" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQ0MGG6_ZusW1P6EBYFDKMWgjCUyuCIfUms0d69YNiPjIeSmNut0O1bYGMsAMmmAOmI-n6pEpERyFIEuWSWUvDvWZX9h8cwHAFIT79oR7a7bFRwzMacxGtHgSh08dlQHIDEKfoWC6fCWJYI6Va8HfKXuvapUNZ2u5VLou2PmxhOQgwwN6N18Y7aHcH/s320/40%20IMG_6088%20crop%20colour%20size**.jpg" width="150" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">bottle</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggK7rfG1bWp5O4Qdcfb_kxEIen8OsEOT1XYC9x3T8nylsa4Q_WjLYduf280C9OugfxJzWykrZcKriEioEX21llFIrXxWGwHOtO7aV6_aD89doy5QP7hMNSioplGhnJz-FmcNzBNSKjIxKsfchjMmpss5TQYXWhXmqv3C6Nk9ReUUosJKbpSJYZnwcm/s600/40%20IMG_6568%20crop%20colour%20size**.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="506" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggK7rfG1bWp5O4Qdcfb_kxEIen8OsEOT1XYC9x3T8nylsa4Q_WjLYduf280C9OugfxJzWykrZcKriEioEX21llFIrXxWGwHOtO7aV6_aD89doy5QP7hMNSioplGhnJz-FmcNzBNSKjIxKsfchjMmpss5TQYXWhXmqv3C6Nk9ReUUosJKbpSJYZnwcm/w270-h320/40%20IMG_6568%20crop%20colour%20size**.jpg" width="270" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">bottle base showing feathered scar dulled by heat treating</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9rqdK-piOZE9q3RtXrOL_vGO3wKhahC6EKIlq7pAB8m8aqdE0xm8lGUvpH0uQDamLCfifQlshvYh4AQruatlIHcIsX7xddMDXn_EC5uw0YgZ3c166v05da0ngfbRoqWEHy33xBaAqrJ5xhjo0S5Bff95v1lPE_60QM7idJELkKdkvuMhkXuPTR_8Y/s4032/40%20IMG_6572%20crop%20colour.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="2801" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9rqdK-piOZE9q3RtXrOL_vGO3wKhahC6EKIlq7pAB8m8aqdE0xm8lGUvpH0uQDamLCfifQlshvYh4AQruatlIHcIsX7xddMDXn_EC5uw0YgZ3c166v05da0ngfbRoqWEHy33xBaAqrJ5xhjo0S5Bff95v1lPE_60QM7idJELkKdkvuMhkXuPTR_8Y/s320/40%20IMG_6572%20crop%20colour.jpg" width="222" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">bottle showing seams that look like they've been dulled by heat treating</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><br /></div><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2886737049184020992.post-33360413158611001142022-05-09T11:02:00.003-06:002022-05-10T13:11:24.882-06:00Reed and Company, Massillon, Ohio - "O" variant<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;">One complete bottle and two basal fragments of amber-coloured American “Export Beer” bottles (what we would today consider a lager bottle) were found at False Creek Flats with “R & CO” in an arch on the base. This mark was from Reed and Company of the Massillon Glass Works, Massillon, Ohio (</span><a href="https://sha.org/bottle/pdffiles/MassillonGlassWorks.pdf" style="text-align: left;" target="_blank">Lockhart et al 2017</a><span style="text-align: left;">). All were mould-blown and the complete bottle has an applied crown finish. The glass is thick – 5 mm or more mid-body. Diameter is 6.5 cm, height is 23.8 cm. Volume would be approximately 12 oz - smaller than most other bottles with this mark.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkil9vwscJqIKm_w4xYEnTW9UmOAQ0b4vG18VeuRE7AU8-Z-92o1KbaR2LjpOMq9O2MdVCcXB08fbe7ZpppREdvEuqcM4YkcYZujrcOAndR59rsQ9x3i83tjrBcwCx4bVvv6cHVes_zZ99PCcKCTMKx6q6HV1yLTJfr85rWktLH4vjoCvhULVVgHq7/s2960/51%20IMG_6245%20R%20&%20Co%2041%20O.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2960" data-original-width="1032" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkil9vwscJqIKm_w4xYEnTW9UmOAQ0b4vG18VeuRE7AU8-Z-92o1KbaR2LjpOMq9O2MdVCcXB08fbe7ZpppREdvEuqcM4YkcYZujrcOAndR59rsQ9x3i83tjrBcwCx4bVvv6cHVes_zZ99PCcKCTMKx6q6HV1yLTJfr85rWktLH4vjoCvhULVVgHq7/w140-h400/51%20IMG_6245%20R%20&%20Co%2041%20O.jpeg" width="140" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Export Beer bottle made by Reed and Company #51</span><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></div><p style="text-align: left;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjH9nkfzjM1JRdtS8a15j8M7uclIurpINkAev2t0ksv3RteP6jQXiK_ooEW-V3R9RWiB4OMH9QBSi4F9EXR0iSap7AifSAy7Kb7Ml-VMR0Pi-50YxowbYl2Z-YRCYWpO9j_kOyF4gsXZXPuuUQqocqMvvhpVzAnw86rcyvkT0iJL5vwzTQLV2og0mtr/s800/51%20%20IMG_7179%20R%20&%20Co%20with%20O%20crop%20size%20color.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="597" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjH9nkfzjM1JRdtS8a15j8M7uclIurpINkAev2t0ksv3RteP6jQXiK_ooEW-V3R9RWiB4OMH9QBSi4F9EXR0iSap7AifSAy7Kb7Ml-VMR0Pi-50YxowbYl2Z-YRCYWpO9j_kOyF4gsXZXPuuUQqocqMvvhpVzAnw86rcyvkT0iJL5vwzTQLV2og0mtr/w149-h200/51%20%20IMG_7179%20R%20&%20Co%20with%20O%20crop%20size%20color.jpg" width="149" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJ0r85UmaVxTxybhylHOZmy2Kqfa-y23QzQMtJ_mIGnO7hd_dopgjb0uNec2WLyxCR12jDsDGO8kHIif3LQp4ww5P9anpJSlmq8JNxsN8u-pHdV7R8ccObNgXyC5xA9dGRwRbdHznARMJ6k0FUV8zZ1MBgtmx59GBly2Ltp885iIbo11FFdm_ny2mT/s800/52%20IMG_6249%20R%20&%20Co%2034%20O%20small.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="660" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJ0r85UmaVxTxybhylHOZmy2Kqfa-y23QzQMtJ_mIGnO7hd_dopgjb0uNec2WLyxCR12jDsDGO8kHIif3LQp4ww5P9anpJSlmq8JNxsN8u-pHdV7R8ccObNgXyC5xA9dGRwRbdHznARMJ6k0FUV8zZ1MBgtmx59GBly2Ltp885iIbo11FFdm_ny2mT/w165-h200/52%20IMG_6249%20R%20&%20Co%2034%20O%20small.jpg" width="165" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZl4DF0V_9-3qw_fHOfNBvdhQKZTFotGg-tzJXWvRCZQssHIV0XRf6HfWr5au7-q1-00r6MVSLtV8BZCWTI_7dXh05NwsspdC59YRGk0G_pGbfPQVLqcbSf0jKVSmD_eJdv7HcN7ng327JuWHB2vSNYOLUpXEmdDk_Ra7ABqSTGLa6esWFM3iLquXE/s800/53%20IMG_7183%20R&Co%20with%20O%20crop%20size%20colour.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="710" height="172" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZl4DF0V_9-3qw_fHOfNBvdhQKZTFotGg-tzJXWvRCZQssHIV0XRf6HfWr5au7-q1-00r6MVSLtV8BZCWTI_7dXh05NwsspdC59YRGk0G_pGbfPQVLqcbSf0jKVSmD_eJdv7HcN7ng327JuWHB2vSNYOLUpXEmdDk_Ra7ABqSTGLa6esWFM3iLquXE/w152-h172/53%20IMG_7183%20R&Co%20with%20O%20crop%20size%20colour.jpg" width="152" /></a></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-size: x-small;"> <span style="text-align: center;">Bottle bases #51, 52, 53 – digitally altered to show the less obvious “O” below the numbers.</span></span></div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;">All three are marked with “R & Co” in an arch over a number – the two base fragments are “34” with an embossed dot above it, while the complete bottle is “41” with no dot. Basal fragment #52 has a ghost “34” above the final “34”, and all of them have a faint capital “O” below the numbers. The “O” has not been recorded by the Society of Historical Archaeology Bottle Group before now (<a href="https://sha.org/bottle/pdffiles/MassillonGlassWorks.pdf" target="_blank">Lockhart et al. 2017</a>). </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Reed and Co. merged with the Massillon Bottle & Glass Co., the Wooster Glass Col, and the H. Everett Glass Co. on October 11, 1904 to form the Ohio Bottle Co. In August and September of 1905, the Ohio Bottle Co. became part of the larger American Bottle Company merger (Lockhart et al 2017). I propose due to the nature and age of this site and the use of the crown finish (used more commonly after about 1900 [Bill Lockhart, Elec. Comm.]), that the “O” may be an indication of when Reed and Co. was part of the Ohio Bottle Company between October 1904 and September 1905. If I'm right, this would make them some of the last bottles made before the American Bottle Company merger. This is just an hypothesis and further historical research and archaeological study will be needed with larger and more extensive samples from various locations to prove the American Bottle Company immediately stopped using the R & Co. mark - some glass house mergers kept the old company marks for a period of time.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Reed & Co., or the Reed Glass Works, was begun by David Reed, Charles W. Reed, and John Miller in 1881. At the height of production, Reed & Co. covered five acres, had 12 buildings, and employed 300 people on average. The <a href="https://massillonmuseum.org/" target="_blank">Massillon Museum website</a> mentions that the company sold bottles to many western and southern states as well as Mexico. This indicates that the bottles likely came to British Columbia containing American beer. One bottle found at Fort Bowie in Arizona has a Schlitz Brewing Company label still attached.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjaQyzM5Im64jXoOcAQTZjsLhP7A2M70giAAz-40p__OKQ-LVGUh9enKKGn0stPibmsePuhEV9hdjPCXD4fjY6SpJlDJJ4wL03qeyqy_6Bv8nZ3fML_DdHPQoaw3K7C39ESRJTQBKqzPwQiPxCtcS0mezLuklU1ZeAy53NSIJwFAJcLD6Y2ZtDUTzW-" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="562" data-original-width="776" height="290" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjaQyzM5Im64jXoOcAQTZjsLhP7A2M70giAAz-40p__OKQ-LVGUh9enKKGn0stPibmsePuhEV9hdjPCXD4fjY6SpJlDJJ4wL03qeyqy_6Bv8nZ3fML_DdHPQoaw3K7C39ESRJTQBKqzPwQiPxCtcS0mezLuklU1ZeAy53NSIJwFAJcLD6Y2ZtDUTzW-=w400-h290" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Reed Glass Works ca.1900 Collection of the Massillon Museum (91.7.431)</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2886737049184020992.post-46103423282143867692022-04-13T16:39:00.002-06:002022-04-14T10:05:19.955-06:00The O'Neill machine Strange Mould Seams from El Paso, Texas<p>Sandra Ratch, M.A. April, 2022</p><p>I do not want anyone to think I am criticizing Bill Lockhart or suggesting that he has not contributed greatly to the knowledge of bottle making in the 20th century. On the contrary, without his work, we would have little information to go on. Here, I just think I found a better theory to explain this strange mark on the bottom of this bottle. (Bill Lockhart has read this post and agrees with what I've found).</p><p>In 2010, Bill Lockhart described a bottle found in El Paso that had an odd mark on the base (<a href="https://sha.org/bottle/pdffiles/EPChap7b.pdf" target="_blank">https://sha.org/bottle/pdffiles/EPChap7b.pdf</a>, p. 252, Figure 7-23). You can see that the mark is two concentric circles, offset from the bottle and at 1+ cm apart from each other. At the time he could not attribute a machine to the making of this bottle.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHqni7JlbHn3qwrv3Jp46D4vWhjmWBFpGICRWnwaqOT3tSh_PdxLlzHAy5KDrEXq5CCdrruKeXzFbqJ7xpatsuLK6NLUVQ53Sdmq5m0DjbH5sKwlLK4yl3TRKshQP71PI1tw0FF7GVpbjkCX2ew6pup98QwVpvU7QbOS55teA7HCHgnFqYE8ftFOsf/s898/Screen%20Shot%202022-04-13%20at%201.05.00%20PM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="898" data-original-width="644" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHqni7JlbHn3qwrv3Jp46D4vWhjmWBFpGICRWnwaqOT3tSh_PdxLlzHAy5KDrEXq5CCdrruKeXzFbqJ7xpatsuLK6NLUVQ53Sdmq5m0DjbH5sKwlLK4yl3TRKshQP71PI1tw0FF7GVpbjkCX2ew6pup98QwVpvU7QbOS55teA7HCHgnFqYE8ftFOsf/w286-h400/Screen%20Shot%202022-04-13%20at%201.05.00%20PM.png" width="286" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Lockhart 2010 (2000):252</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">This same bottle was again discussed in another Lockhart (N/D:7) publication and the O'Neill 1911 patent was ascribed to the bottle. The image below shows a valve on the base of the final blow mould - this valve would draw the glass down to the bottom of the mould. Lockhart suggests that where the two arrows are seen (below) is where the two mould seams come from. He also suggests that the offsetting occurred with the blowing of the bottle. However, this should make a mark where the two concentric rings are closer together, or the outer one is not visible at all (because the valve is the moving part and the outer portion fits very tightly into the base plate). It should also not be so offset if it is created in the final mould.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEil6d5MovCVvI7R3iNI78W8z__QRCPbxrdbz9RPdOfI-SWzI1jsbqqHklWNNZwDYg3XgGg0r0vQmIvuGfG4tK2u4TaPQDZs2M3ONJ3fX2xc2VUVguFyKZcvjaQZBGR70qc2T7w8SvMUa3cwByuXNslscN0gy2cfj3DQNYZ19Ipio5F0Coq3Zwbak0G9/s512/Screen%20Shot%202022-04-13%20at%201.09.07%20PM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="512" data-original-width="438" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEil6d5MovCVvI7R3iNI78W8z__QRCPbxrdbz9RPdOfI-SWzI1jsbqqHklWNNZwDYg3XgGg0r0vQmIvuGfG4tK2u4TaPQDZs2M3ONJ3fX2xc2VUVguFyKZcvjaQZBGR70qc2T7w8SvMUa3cwByuXNslscN0gy2cfj3DQNYZ19Ipio5F0Coq3Zwbak0G9/s320/Screen%20Shot%202022-04-13%20at%201.09.07%20PM.png" width="274" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Lockhart N/D:9</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The composition above could, I suspect, cause concentric mould seams that are closer together, but the amount of asymmetry of the marks in comparison to the bottle would be less as this is occurring in the final mould, not the blank mould. I suggest instead that the outer part of the valve was tight-fitting and did not cause a seam, creating a valve mark with no concentric ring around it (or a less obvious one), and more centred.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Having read Lockhart's article (N/D) recently and having it in the back of my mind, I came across <a href="https://patents.google.com/patent/US1217102A/en?oq=US1217102A" target="_blank">O'Neill patent US1217102</a> from 1917. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgb3oIHE49gAeIPKyNB_L78lGy09yOYFonfiEuubXbCxJ5FXCiXdkCfzfqvldNC_0md0knFWC0YArYDTydF6cvrVfwzivCQSdcmu2f6woObuq5py0LYy52ru9wvMEgYX24iULACmjT9duik8vNYZwRTrygybPvDDwo4izoeiKTYIKkzTvMzEFzK_11a/s1114/Screen%20Shot%202022-04-13%20at%201.11.57%20PM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1114" data-original-width="874" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgb3oIHE49gAeIPKyNB_L78lGy09yOYFonfiEuubXbCxJ5FXCiXdkCfzfqvldNC_0md0knFWC0YArYDTydF6cvrVfwzivCQSdcmu2f6woObuq5py0LYy52ru9wvMEgYX24iULACmjT9duik8vNYZwRTrygybPvDDwo4izoeiKTYIKkzTvMzEFzK_11a/s320/Screen%20Shot%202022-04-13%20at%201.11.57%20PM.png" width="251" /></a> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYZrpBG_kQ5eoZethaxZUpyR-dXoNkgzF2LwJy-keiRARpJKH3RqjKqHBmczF2aLjKK6VnwI_2xtNTUZUzJPLUaNsYW40-5vIpcPI-PJfnqoXCZ5EgBa3zT5JqNi4q-OQaudRPPcmbZ7WT0dRiy1J-SbAzSeEqeV1zPeibLUT7FF3FvU_WvpZfOvjJ/s952/Screen%20Shot%202022-04-13%20at%201.51.52%20PM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="952" data-original-width="614" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYZrpBG_kQ5eoZethaxZUpyR-dXoNkgzF2LwJy-keiRARpJKH3RqjKqHBmczF2aLjKK6VnwI_2xtNTUZUzJPLUaNsYW40-5vIpcPI-PJfnqoXCZ5EgBa3zT5JqNi4q-OQaudRPPcmbZ7WT0dRiy1J-SbAzSeEqeV1zPeibLUT7FF3FvU_WvpZfOvjJ/s320/Screen%20Shot%202022-04-13%20at%201.51.52%20PM.png" width="206" /></a><br /><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">1917 O'Neill Patent 1217102 Figures 4 and 5</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Within this patent, You can see the blank or parison mould (9) and above it a valve (108) and a mould closure (15) that houses the valve. From this drawing, you can see that the interior circle would come from valve 108, and the exterior circle from where the mould closure (15) comes in contact with the glass. It would then be transferred to the final mould where the blowing would be completed. This would create two symmetrical seams (valve and mould) reasonably distant from each other and together off-centre to the same degree (as in the top photo). Valve 108 allows air into the blank mould to force the glass into the finish mould (14), and is then left open to allow air to escape which the parison is blown from below to fill the entire blank mould before being transferred to the final mould.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I do believe this 1917 patent explain's Lockhart's soda bottle better than the 1911 patent.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Please contact me if you think I am incorrect on any of this.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><b>Sources:</b></div><div><br /></div>Lockhart, Bill<div>2010 <i>Bottles on the Border: The History and Bottles of the Soft Drink Industry in El Paso, Texas, 1881-2000. </i>Originally published online in 2000. Can be found here: <a href="https://sha.org/bottle/References.htm" target="_blank">https://sha.org/bottle/References.htm </a></div><div><br /></div><div>N/D. <i> Frank O'Neill and the O'Neill Glass Machines. </i>SHA Bottle website: <a href="https://sha.org/bottle/pdffiles/ONeillmachines.pdf" target="_blank">https://sha.org/bottle/pdffiles/ONeillmachines.pdf</a><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><br /><p><br /></p></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2886737049184020992.post-49546694764108594082022-03-03T16:03:00.005-07:002022-04-02T15:01:02.903-06:00Apollinaris Spring and their Rheinahr Glasfabrik<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The Apollinaris Mineral Springs in Neuenahr, Germany, played a significant roll in bringing the Owen's automatic bottle blowing machine to Europe as they were the fist ones to license the machine in Europe (Biram 1958:21N). The Owen's machine was the first fully-automated bottle making machine ever patented, and it changed the future of bottles and bottling forever - allowing for large numbers of inexpensive glass bottles to be made. The Coca-Cola plant in Neuenahr stands in the same location as the old Apollinaris plant, and most of the buildings you see here no longer exist. The spring is still present on the edge of the Coca Cola campus, and one of the old buildings in the following photographs still stands across from the spring.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgMpH8pQ07kOWQyLf1jVY8xDRMIjuCCdF81ib9Up6M5zCrs9jl7Yeo_HuOJthkMzQ6F42rrsxIK_S6Y3NyERdtJ-x9LAURrPpr7rZ1H35a1ZEXwVWL61vqgYI-UcmpnOeF-uuGN46qXdcUlX7Sp9xfNH3KmvX8hxo0cOM34yu8Z6HQd43kSN270IUMM=s1184" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="732" data-original-width="1184" height="396" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgMpH8pQ07kOWQyLf1jVY8xDRMIjuCCdF81ib9Up6M5zCrs9jl7Yeo_HuOJthkMzQ6F42rrsxIK_S6Y3NyERdtJ-x9LAURrPpr7rZ1H35a1ZEXwVWL61vqgYI-UcmpnOeF-uuGN46qXdcUlX7Sp9xfNH3KmvX8hxo0cOM34yu8Z6HQd43kSN270IUMM=w640-h396" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Arched entrance to the Apollinaris spring, Neuenahr, Germany - the spring itself was behind this building. A fountain could be found behind the arched doorway.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEicT62anSG3HJMy3IHk4zpcjfr03-Z2mStRdsl8X6GEK-CmQU1XRH3PitPkB532UMx1opumQCRoS-lunKmRsY889TqrcDq_zXWlNkHZy1zpmKi8SKsAJYpSH1cWYtxCOy-K0IbnkSTNH_h6HnL2S6O6A42pVpo1bNnOnEMY_ctqyzAkLTurtYqJGJXQ=s2022" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1300" data-original-width="2022" height="412" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEicT62anSG3HJMy3IHk4zpcjfr03-Z2mStRdsl8X6GEK-CmQU1XRH3PitPkB532UMx1opumQCRoS-lunKmRsY889TqrcDq_zXWlNkHZy1zpmKi8SKsAJYpSH1cWYtxCOy-K0IbnkSTNH_h6HnL2S6O6A42pVpo1bNnOnEMY_ctqyzAkLTurtYqJGJXQ=w640-h412" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Apollinaris plant also showing the white arched entrance to the left</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0000ee;"><u><br /></u></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #0000ee; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEha5SiyGqW8ZdEBAH9Di36gydrxa7HqsXlxDdDXLepgcnz6KjjFdd0WD1cBJbu4TLCVLVzqBxCe-2jp834G6-DjL4VFzdcy0zD2hm-P546ytKnFTsBrSbv-2sLy8ugnn5Q72QaHqHJkSn9YSmgHakNOAKy7mDaUxEeQAui7sgxEITMFdtVtD3HZzXn6=s482" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="318" data-original-width="482" height="422" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEha5SiyGqW8ZdEBAH9Di36gydrxa7HqsXlxDdDXLepgcnz6KjjFdd0WD1cBJbu4TLCVLVzqBxCe-2jp834G6-DjL4VFzdcy0zD2hm-P546ytKnFTsBrSbv-2sLy8ugnn5Q72QaHqHJkSn9YSmgHakNOAKy7mDaUxEeQAui7sgxEITMFdtVtD3HZzXn6=w640-h422" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Apollinaris plant with arched entrance highlighted. Across the street from the arch, the 3 1/2 story brick building with the two gabled ends is the one that still stands (also the low building beside it to the right still appears to be there):</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8yoyr_27cG3G1ZBqA3QRJkk7k3pTg8E-AMphyj9EdPX-5IoZD7pPXruX0_DW3ncJThTgxY09uEuQKYmDYmLMUvwfWgHuQbqYxilBKL-8IRk2msT1rR0qWGQR5XNcTHUYH9uyjFISbc_n99lWJxLpJCeCGEpFVPvD7ouTqs_cSUaOKIckNvH76giCu/s1496/Screen%20Shot%202022-04-02%20at%2012.37.30%20PM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1028" data-original-width="1496" height="440" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8yoyr_27cG3G1ZBqA3QRJkk7k3pTg8E-AMphyj9EdPX-5IoZD7pPXruX0_DW3ncJThTgxY09uEuQKYmDYmLMUvwfWgHuQbqYxilBKL-8IRk2msT1rR0qWGQR5XNcTHUYH9uyjFISbc_n99lWJxLpJCeCGEpFVPvD7ouTqs_cSUaOKIckNvH76giCu/w640-h440/Screen%20Shot%202022-04-02%20at%2012.37.30%20PM.png" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The Rheinahr Flaschen-Fabrik was built 1906-1908 by the Apollinaris Company - so they could make their own bottles using the Owens Machine. They had one machine operating as a demonstration machine in 1907. By 1909, three were in operation, with three being installed. All six were in operation by 1910.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj9r2N6tYCVNnzEovbdf7SGEbnvG7BaOWFjuCUwaJ05GEfrb7FRMFTLmSn6xYOjCZ4F_ZV3Oibwuh8xRwVG299AHVFPhAcksni7cvhDl8CB2xoGoOomUYCaAYfFfPuyZrlLcxbboMKstfOLBfjSKgu5BEZodhaaQDaU2nCyKVAVBHqTTrss8_dmR6Lb=s2042" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1274" data-original-width="2042" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj9r2N6tYCVNnzEovbdf7SGEbnvG7BaOWFjuCUwaJ05GEfrb7FRMFTLmSn6xYOjCZ4F_ZV3Oibwuh8xRwVG299AHVFPhAcksni7cvhDl8CB2xoGoOomUYCaAYfFfPuyZrlLcxbboMKstfOLBfjSKgu5BEZodhaaQDaU2nCyKVAVBHqTTrss8_dmR6Lb=w640-h400" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Apollinaris Rheinar Glasfabrik in Sinzig ca. 1910 - the white building in the middle is the one that still exists (it is used for farmer's markets, dances, and such):</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgKLIef3REv46erE120EPR8oSjc9fQiUnPNIp4LK5DOhlkV4Gjls26UpRLO0mrZiV2yVXHxvnKt706BHWzWGnMgNeiRoCcGRLneR-RXtNeB2ZedGnLDpftZCECGLT0BRidcAKNiZivbQ6Zu4Dvk1IW0QpflvFtgN7wdrc7trh4pzEWuHLk2uEeT8qX6" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1170" data-original-width="1296" height="577" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgKLIef3REv46erE120EPR8oSjc9fQiUnPNIp4LK5DOhlkV4Gjls26UpRLO0mrZiV2yVXHxvnKt706BHWzWGnMgNeiRoCcGRLneR-RXtNeB2ZedGnLDpftZCECGLT0BRidcAKNiZivbQ6Zu4Dvk1IW0QpflvFtgN7wdrc7trh4pzEWuHLk2uEeT8qX6=w640-h577" width="640" /></a></div><br /><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj1y-8nEx6wBHl_02JUJ1JRn4br3y274WKfXDFu4znQ4zFz-TbtgMZIg4jFhYAYJ_RhbhlYhO1nDaUISD_u4xax5kAkN2K3BVOhO52rDytTenMQZ8zAx5OHN96Z2Zo-qvyMaPGHN8zuDXScfKBdK0wsbNm-n7VE__Busq8PwAUiMqJoAIyvlMfWgnsR=s1542" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1382" data-original-width="1542" height="574" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj1y-8nEx6wBHl_02JUJ1JRn4br3y274WKfXDFu4znQ4zFz-TbtgMZIg4jFhYAYJ_RhbhlYhO1nDaUISD_u4xax5kAkN2K3BVOhO52rDytTenMQZ8zAx5OHN96Z2Zo-qvyMaPGHN8zuDXScfKBdK0wsbNm-n7VE__Busq8PwAUiMqJoAIyvlMfWgnsR=w640-h574" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Map showing the Rheinahr Plant lower right labelled "Flaschen Fbr." You can see the 4 chimneys and the Water Tower (Wass.T) as well as the train tracks</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhAZYDu7mqD2NZZS75mrX13SQyffhPEyCALslJJ7Vhra8Sf8wF4XvBs5Mq5IqbhpIDOCvHT7FCuLQjpiPNPw3XqTQM8JKA_vqLCZCjo9J3C8GDSJIunO--IzfXGuUxKVpNWEGvGPhJvydMzX3ZWAs8OWoTp077pb8tdUHPA8vGPMnFBawdTVHWREzxH=s2312" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1466" data-original-width="2312" height="406" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhAZYDu7mqD2NZZS75mrX13SQyffhPEyCALslJJ7Vhra8Sf8wF4XvBs5Mq5IqbhpIDOCvHT7FCuLQjpiPNPw3XqTQM8JKA_vqLCZCjo9J3C8GDSJIunO--IzfXGuUxKVpNWEGvGPhJvydMzX3ZWAs8OWoTp077pb8tdUHPA8vGPMnFBawdTVHWREzxH=w640-h406" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Loading bottles of Apollinaris onto sailboats on the Rhine at Remagen (North of Sinzig)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><img alt="" data-original-height="206" data-original-width="936" height="88" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhEU71KmtssViU9wXK5F0hxkV0P4sa8ABcWEIdj0QWERMDHOkKhptw_xksnrXx93lV2ID9euseicsbWMnfLGinLdgn_COVobq4Argf4JUT2PpYaA0JQGd-u4KdGp9Mk7dfJKw9rc7RsQY_MdJKSAzCtuy_y8PaXVGVWVwfhNlA1e3t_BEi--cnqLSoE=w400-h88" width="400" /></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><br /><br /><br /><p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2886737049184020992.post-75139139655263985532022-02-19T13:33:00.006-07:002022-02-22T15:02:40.492-07:00Ring Seal Beer / Champagne bottles from False Creek Flats in Vancouver, BC<p>Ring Seal Beer / Champagne Bottles from False Creek Flats in Vancouver </p><p>Champagne is considered one of the most exclusive wines in the world. It is a sparkling wine that comes from the Champagne region of France grown by Champenois vine growers. The true Champenois growers grow grapes in the Champagne district on expensive land with expensive ground conditioning practices and are sold to Champagne producers. </p><p>In 1900, the Victoria Daily Times (July 6, 1900 p.7) had an add from Pither & Leiser in Victoria – wholesale agents: </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi8WYvIEwLh6U8qf-2GJah9mek1wyiX6lSHp_t_V0pBGJHloygSmvwzC4KWyOhm4NlSeP76Dn0vcSHO1YB8-lgxhlUv0hmaZP9ZXYJBJu0aNnTIoJDSC41O3SXkApr81cgV6Rzfe4IJkvXRLkaJUcaMUOaCQsMFqfUQEtiAzpYvFqcTdUMtRBgbi3R5=s3366" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1260" data-original-width="3366" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi8WYvIEwLh6U8qf-2GJah9mek1wyiX6lSHp_t_V0pBGJHloygSmvwzC4KWyOhm4NlSeP76Dn0vcSHO1YB8-lgxhlUv0hmaZP9ZXYJBJu0aNnTIoJDSC41O3SXkApr81cgV6Rzfe4IJkvXRLkaJUcaMUOaCQsMFqfUQEtiAzpYvFqcTdUMtRBgbi3R5=w640-h240" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Within this ad it clearly shows that Champagnes were doing well in North American prior to weather problems that started in the growing season of 1902. Mumm’s did especially well in 1899:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgL3cLq4GVCLWcvLpa7EvQpUL7sRfqOke2hXTyvgpN74an0kWvidoxlbb8EWosUrU8HmV0guFDqi7Ww-zp922PHijNbC7XBmzYmvA1Yfz0C0mK3okJpc0brozd2s8tE-oVvwWtt7dAQ_U_v_u5EYegOSqFQ8V0imFYCY8eFmT9sfAcFXi3pkCtlGTZ9=s1782" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1782" data-original-width="1310" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgL3cLq4GVCLWcvLpa7EvQpUL7sRfqOke2hXTyvgpN74an0kWvidoxlbb8EWosUrU8HmV0guFDqi7Ww-zp922PHijNbC7XBmzYmvA1Yfz0C0mK3okJpc0brozd2s8tE-oVvwWtt7dAQ_U_v_u5EYegOSqFQ8V0imFYCY8eFmT9sfAcFXi3pkCtlGTZ9=w294-h400" width="294" /></a></div><p>By the beginning of the 20th Century, the cost of being a Champenois grower had made it prohibitive for most growers. The process of making Champagne was also expensive given the long labour-intensive process of producing Champagne, and loss due to exploding bottles. Weather conditions between 1902 and 1909 were wet and ruined many Champenois grower crops. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiyFBVcXSoZfeawlnJgc8uB3LoTq8yld_ZP5K7WTinUeyPLwJTRu7E-gsmgt4HEGTravptfQfFsDEYhdGREmiV_akh1kyfDN7gfkyIt9jrWct5xc9y7QIZFJpaopJjmzU44eiIHxFUJPUsEs4zjK-eegFt32FJ2dkg8JeXjSypGuOx9u5UAzB___TR5=s1058" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="908" data-original-width="1058" height="275" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiyFBVcXSoZfeawlnJgc8uB3LoTq8yld_ZP5K7WTinUeyPLwJTRu7E-gsmgt4HEGTravptfQfFsDEYhdGREmiV_akh1kyfDN7gfkyIt9jrWct5xc9y7QIZFJpaopJjmzU44eiIHxFUJPUsEs4zjK-eegFt32FJ2dkg8JeXjSypGuOx9u5UAzB___TR5=s320" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">The Province, November 14, 1908, p.9 (<a href="https://www.newspapers.com/image/499784052">https://www.newspapers.com/image/499784052</a>)</span></div><p>In 1908, undoubtedly due pressure from Champagne Producers, the French government announced that the term “Champagne” could be used on sparkling wines made from grapes grown outside of the Champagne region. A further weather disaster in 1910 with hailstorms and flooding affected production ruining about 95% of the true Champagne crop. The Champagne producers relied even more on growers outside of the region.</p><p>The Champenois growers petitioned the government to require 51% of the grapes in Champagne be grown in Champagne. Champagne producers wanted prices to be lower, so they fought back and argued that they would not buy from the Champenois growers unless they could produce the grapes at a lower price. Riots broke out in January 1911 with growers forcing “foreign” grapes into rivers and wine into the gutters. Soldiers were brought in and discontent between grower and producer continued for years – only ceasing with the outbreak of World War I. Sometime before mid-1910, Germany also started making sparkling wine and calling it “German Champagne” – something the French were unhappy with (Vancouver Daily World July 29, 1910). Sometime after the war, only wines produced from grapes grown in the Champagne region can be called “Champagne.” </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEikbQ6E7XXHW31hEzArod5QFuK5cUmP2EcWemBP5AXcQz5wX3zKYB0ljIaEUiReMhLOdwTgYMzuq-jfRTZULe7GUz2wLKrIj3K_Nq6efdoQO4YyXPbeOlAxedxrWGbU4F-W0GRpd-kvOn29EaIG4TlMSNbHJ7iuqZI7Wbo6pWHvl2X9TjLfpCeghSCU=s1954" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="916" data-original-width="1954" height="301" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEikbQ6E7XXHW31hEzArod5QFuK5cUmP2EcWemBP5AXcQz5wX3zKYB0ljIaEUiReMhLOdwTgYMzuq-jfRTZULe7GUz2wLKrIj3K_Nq6efdoQO4YyXPbeOlAxedxrWGbU4F-W0GRpd-kvOn29EaIG4TlMSNbHJ7iuqZI7Wbo6pWHvl2X9TjLfpCeghSCU=w640-h301" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">From Newspapers.com</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">I chose to include this historical vignette, because the dates of this archaeological site fit within the dates of discontent between Champagne growers and producers. So even if we could prove that the bottles were made in France, and that the bottles contained sparkling wine, we still could not claim that they contained true Champagne at that time. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b>Champagne-shaped bottles, however, were used for a wide variety of carbonated beverages from many countries</b>. This has led New Zealand researcher, Peter Petchey of the University of Otago, to call these Ring Seal Beer (RSB) / Champagne bottles (<span face=""GT America Standard", Helvetica, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Droid Sans", sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #676765; font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: -0.32px;"><a href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/275156195_The_Ring_Seal_BeerChampagne_Bottle">https://www.researchgate.net/publication/275156195_The_Ring_Seal_BeerChampagne_Bottle</a>)</span>. This style of bottle has very thick glass, so was definitely used for carbonated liquids, whereas a Bordeaux bottle in the collection (of virtually the same shape) was obvious as it was made of thinner glass.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Here are just two examples of the small RSB bottles being used for beer.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjyPMKit1G-O4BWK8ZNmqZmRobyNm5YOD8REvelccPgQ4YRrnzgIWXLtmVstlitwQXFQxbNKfELfwvjmP4TzrePAWbt82eJSizU7GRMAaPm6brpGjnXVYnho9MKdvjnvidwWdal-ObWQfI1wEI8-uKylDxODI2ehM-W7OGPBrKYh1I3jp-hxpWCwHMW=s1536" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="462" height="262" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjyPMKit1G-O4BWK8ZNmqZmRobyNm5YOD8REvelccPgQ4YRrnzgIWXLtmVstlitwQXFQxbNKfELfwvjmP4TzrePAWbt82eJSizU7GRMAaPm6brpGjnXVYnho9MKdvjnvidwWdal-ObWQfI1wEI8-uKylDxODI2ehM-W7OGPBrKYh1I3jp-hxpWCwHMW=w79-h262" width="79" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/antique-19thc-bass-pale-ale-dick-1883552435" target="_blank">Bass Pale Ale bottle in the RSB / Champagne shape</a> (24 cm tall)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjmcBN-tJMoCAQqcfRwK_Fivt7EH-aG-n1v0XnETJB126chFB5ctcf35wEUTABs8jO3kYUE3Ux98lxWN70QoCVI2gckCHOsxwQpfhJwUtYnLgoHbRbfnwjGC-EBMkRXaDS3yVvAJGOrzbdRN5Ea5_6LJ-NTKyXpZBB2c3_HKG2u_rmmuLBWw6vAiJaR=s1158" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1158" data-original-width="444" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjmcBN-tJMoCAQqcfRwK_Fivt7EH-aG-n1v0XnETJB126chFB5ctcf35wEUTABs8jO3kYUE3Ux98lxWN70QoCVI2gckCHOsxwQpfhJwUtYnLgoHbRbfnwjGC-EBMkRXaDS3yVvAJGOrzbdRN5Ea5_6LJ-NTKyXpZBB2c3_HKG2u_rmmuLBWw6vAiJaR=s320" width="123" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://ehive.com/collections/6051/objects/624460/beer-bottle" target="_blank">Great Northern Brewery bottle, Aukland, New Zealand</a> (25.1 x 6.8 cm)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Here is a list of characteristics of RSB bottles from Petchey (2013:2):</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjHUp6EZDq8OFOO-4_NEWzkS8oA_RPc8Aj72OBI8Jm2AdKXU3Vuv0rpE8i4azPyZ3I6EUuFKeq-osJfy8tl9M2QeSkoDfAZdDjr3RqByFfytrJZ0kLInU_AENWFraDD6fsd0-BGYvRb1sdgL7hmsQkyJOfObPP2cMdV3lP9SEQ_oY5mg89m3B_V6UqO=s1420" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="564" data-original-width="1420" height="254" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjHUp6EZDq8OFOO-4_NEWzkS8oA_RPc8Aj72OBI8Jm2AdKXU3Vuv0rpE8i4azPyZ3I6EUuFKeq-osJfy8tl9M2QeSkoDfAZdDjr3RqByFfytrJZ0kLInU_AENWFraDD6fsd0-BGYvRb1sdgL7hmsQkyJOfObPP2cMdV3lP9SEQ_oY5mg89m3B_V6UqO=w640-h254" width="640" /></a></div><div><div><br /></div></div><div>In this collection there are a minimum of 11 small bottles (~350 ml). </div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgIuKjjIRL6Jq_PKg6Ns-Zjn8QNKRS9rhIgtYtEJ_pZzlvQar_RaDoklbytAzFCZ7PYG024-oXpk5quzY53Y5y-KUNHTDICCkjWm8h827Qqhp4tsfta_7D6aosXySyhA1svbOMBZpUr_7hj3MhZ0MiU3dqhu9tlG5F9Ds75UL5H70xVim2aukBgJGd_=s3201" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3201" data-original-width="2958" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgIuKjjIRL6Jq_PKg6Ns-Zjn8QNKRS9rhIgtYtEJ_pZzlvQar_RaDoklbytAzFCZ7PYG024-oXpk5quzY53Y5y-KUNHTDICCkjWm8h827Qqhp4tsfta_7D6aosXySyhA1svbOMBZpUr_7hj3MhZ0MiU3dqhu9tlG5F9Ds75UL5H70xVim2aukBgJGd_=s320" width="296" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Small (~350 ml) sized bottles and fragments</span></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">One Larger bottle (maybe 750 ml) is represented by a finish/neck fragment. The remains of a seal can be seen on it, and this one I would claim definitely contained some form of sparkling wine – maybe even real Champagne, but that cannot be proven. Below are photos of it in relation to the smaller size.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg0jk7B04UEGVQFTvf2DlsOpLkVtFTHHQI86RHe690ooCUWE0Eqkkyk6oClHCqtApzmMdIa3ZW71vAW8XvBntdoDx3IQTbL8P1Occ0xABWaizJxkeDd_PcnmiA_mkxz58gin624CMVOqL-PlsJTjLGeBNQ9P0ERmgDkfoQcOxGPB1yBodzsYW5lJh-G=s2566" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1658" data-original-width="2566" height="207" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg0jk7B04UEGVQFTvf2DlsOpLkVtFTHHQI86RHe690ooCUWE0Eqkkyk6oClHCqtApzmMdIa3ZW71vAW8XvBntdoDx3IQTbL8P1Occ0xABWaizJxkeDd_PcnmiA_mkxz58gin624CMVOqL-PlsJTjLGeBNQ9P0ERmgDkfoQcOxGPB1yBodzsYW5lJh-G=s320" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEji8vqlIw1p-LTilZTnH_05x2gYxzFsAIcor5pE2w66FkSRB75j-5qOK_RbhdnIN1y-zfWhMUfdqjSiMr_tXPvAsSwdVjyzjo67H492YEZzd5napANl-eyxr5RnO_VF1Ke_iXqCE_RyW94Hh-f6UGJuRtib2HbTPQ7TMoMU1VB9LEYutGANu9vYxb6V=s2945" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2945" data-original-width="2194" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEji8vqlIw1p-LTilZTnH_05x2gYxzFsAIcor5pE2w66FkSRB75j-5qOK_RbhdnIN1y-zfWhMUfdqjSiMr_tXPvAsSwdVjyzjo67H492YEZzd5napANl-eyxr5RnO_VF1Ke_iXqCE_RyW94Hh-f6UGJuRtib2HbTPQ7TMoMU1VB9LEYutGANu9vYxb6V=s320" width="238" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Large (~750 ml #305) size bottle neck and finish compared with small (~350 ml size #309)</span></div><div><br /></div></div><div><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2886737049184020992.post-7494802892044403232022-02-17T15:24:00.002-07:002022-02-17T15:24:58.722-07:00John Lumb & Co. Ltd, Castleford, Yorkshire<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">John Lumb & Co Bottles recovered from False Creek Flats in Vancouver.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">John Lumb & Co. Ltd. of Castleford, Yorkshire, was one of the first companies in England to embrace semi-automatic bottle machine technology. As early as 1904 they had decided to dispense with mould-blown operations and concentrate on their machine line. The Simpson-Bradshaw was in commercial use by 1905 (Turner 1938:254, 256). They started out with 8 machines. By 1907 they had 23 machines, and by 1914 had 38 (Ibid). Turner (1938) does not mention which machine they started with, but it was likely the Simpson-Bradshaw machine , which they developed in house. By 1915, John Lumb & Co. was being taken over completely by Walker’s Whisky (Johnnie Walker’s) (Morgan 2021:125), possibly ending their beer bottle production (I have no evidence of this, just guessing).</div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEizQc6bMeaYJb9c5NDStyuCLsgmEdrWGkxh5PON4ZVLPQZ6vSpYFCQSLJ-aZigQCf0zHGjdYuA9PP99Xlxw1PYQwN2To4CzJYqcnIy_30jZ1EhXjJW7s-zvp5tqKRSjXZe-zwPeoSXEADrVZoOrzA_xo70Dpfn22Wxl7uLTnSJBXGa5c61shjcf_tJD=s2987" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2379" data-original-width="2987" height="255" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEizQc6bMeaYJb9c5NDStyuCLsgmEdrWGkxh5PON4ZVLPQZ6vSpYFCQSLJ-aZigQCf0zHGjdYuA9PP99Xlxw1PYQwN2To4CzJYqcnIy_30jZ1EhXjJW7s-zvp5tqKRSjXZe-zwPeoSXEADrVZoOrzA_xo70Dpfn22Wxl7uLTnSJBXGa5c61shjcf_tJD=s320" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Four John Lumb & Co Ld C bottles from False Creek – all semi-automatic machine made. #121 (19.4 cm tall), #122, 123, 124</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The Simpson-Bradshaw machine was described in 1924 and sounds very similar to the workings of the Ashley Machine: </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">"Around a semi-circle of brickwork several men were engaged in dipping out ‘gobs’ of metal [molten glass] and depositing each into the mouth of the machine. A second man rapidly clipped it off with a pair of scissors, and with the pulling of a few bundles [sic., “handles”?] the machine did the rest. The ‘gob’ was first shaped and then inverted into a mould, where it was blown into the form required (Leeds Mercury February 20, 1924 p.6)."</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Four complete bottles from the collection have the Lumb mark and were clearly made in a semi-automatic machine (two 6-oz apollinaris-style, one 10-oz appolinaris-style, and one 10-oz whisky or beer). The complete bottles all have mould seams up and over the finish as well as around the base of the finish. Ghost seams when visible go from the finish downward, not from the base upward. See <a href="https://sandiratch.blogspot.com/2021/12/characteristics-of-ashley-machine-made.html" target="_blank">this post</a> and this page: <a href="https://snratch.wixsite.com/portfolio/ashley-bottle-video-clip" target="_blank">https://snratch.wixsite.com/portfolio/ashley-bottle-video-clip</a>.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">The two mossy-green splits-sized apollinaris-style bottles (6 oz) with sloping shoulders (#121 and #122 – see photo above) have “J L & Co LD C (arch) / 1843” and “J L & Co LD C (arch) / 1795” on their bases (see photo below). The third complete bottle is 10 oz in size (#123) with sloping shoulders, and has “J. L & Co LD C (arch) / 1492” – the added period on the larger bottle (#123) seems to be a mistake of sorts. The fourth semi-automatic bottle (#124) is also a 10 oz bottle and is marked “J L & Co LD C (arch) / 1343, but this one has a defined shoulder and is made of a darker emerald green glass – for beer or, perhaps, whisky (see photo above and below). All of them have the “C” after “LD” which I assume stands for Castleford – where the company was located. All of the complete bottles with the JL&CoLdC marks are made in 2-piece post bottom moulds.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhu9KwQ6lcx075A_jaj1gRecbPCFwJbhnAOI1bKJlSF1Ab4ONw133N1QLICVWVpkd9O8tqFvFPQ_vynxCZSWCytc8KPiH_IgLIKzslm2xc5EsUcUCN2lSVgJD2kBA6AY_XvEVvJQUK8elYKE2HB1yOQVCxpYrVGXajC8K1VM4xLYTqO1TKkYWgqM47T=s1617" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1617" data-original-width="1411" height="153" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhu9KwQ6lcx075A_jaj1gRecbPCFwJbhnAOI1bKJlSF1Ab4ONw133N1QLICVWVpkd9O8tqFvFPQ_vynxCZSWCytc8KPiH_IgLIKzslm2xc5EsUcUCN2lSVgJD2kBA6AY_XvEVvJQUK8elYKE2HB1yOQVCxpYrVGXajC8K1VM4xLYTqO1TKkYWgqM47T=w134-h153" width="134" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiVhAC2Q6c6L2AzYrG1oORHDfDjdcXX3MO8cG3gr0QEBB4PzNGGxj3raKeA1fb3G9mLOwSPvmnOByAUs123ryb-dHKxuVsN6f9nxiQ-CeVJ4TT1pd65N3mGtd_YDKvgG2QT6GusH_-OPAA7MNJd1YDt35F4NnvvgSxoIrZXC9Ga-fNXpbxBwQs_Y3sz=s1624" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1624" data-original-width="1339" height="157" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiVhAC2Q6c6L2AzYrG1oORHDfDjdcXX3MO8cG3gr0QEBB4PzNGGxj3raKeA1fb3G9mLOwSPvmnOByAUs123ryb-dHKxuVsN6f9nxiQ-CeVJ4TT1pd65N3mGtd_YDKvgG2QT6GusH_-OPAA7MNJd1YDt35F4NnvvgSxoIrZXC9Ga-fNXpbxBwQs_Y3sz=w130-h157" width="130" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEivRWF5MjzY1V7H1FDO8gne3cNREw68qa90pqirknGxwZ9Ca2y7G91jxunxBmZL86B0J3GoGJ4jLZOQpAM0I99ICQzN7-JwyOm_l3noAai1KaJkxmk0bEvCkoOY6W1JEsQ1B98i-0F2gMQn37XaM-m0eyeogxOZAW_MmtIoidqQyF14XY_Pi_d6oxub=s2473" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2473" data-original-width="2155" height="158" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEivRWF5MjzY1V7H1FDO8gne3cNREw68qa90pqirknGxwZ9Ca2y7G91jxunxBmZL86B0J3GoGJ4jLZOQpAM0I99ICQzN7-JwyOm_l3noAai1KaJkxmk0bEvCkoOY6W1JEsQ1B98i-0F2gMQn37XaM-m0eyeogxOZAW_MmtIoidqQyF14XY_Pi_d6oxub=w138-h158" width="138" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhG0_JGSPy8k2UGaIFXU11l59Jjn1nZz-M1LIjIn1ufjhX0DBjZYqiDVZAigfdb1hxcmrl7cYA5IwCHG-slgTm_oRzmsuUcZ_Gjm15UoD2JO39MPJ7Lg7b8JDk0wmZp16b7BE18DYAll9VndIrjZCGEpzWczIsvYbPPwE6RwYUsAHbYJKRGdGrvIeHo=s2618" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2618" data-original-width="2248" height="157" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhG0_JGSPy8k2UGaIFXU11l59Jjn1nZz-M1LIjIn1ufjhX0DBjZYqiDVZAigfdb1hxcmrl7cYA5IwCHG-slgTm_oRzmsuUcZ_Gjm15UoD2JO39MPJ7Lg7b8JDk0wmZp16b7BE18DYAll9VndIrjZCGEpzWczIsvYbPPwE6RwYUsAHbYJKRGdGrvIeHo=w135-h157" width="135" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Lumb bottles: #121, 122, 123, 124</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Two basal fragments were also found. One (#246) is marked J L & Co LD C (arch) / 1690 and is the same diameter as the 10 oz complete whisky or beer bottle. One (#180) is marked J L & Co LTD C (arch) / 857 – a 6 oz size of emerald green. This one was different from all the rest as it was made in a 2-piece cup bottom mould – the embossing on the bottle is different and it only has a three digit number, so I wonder if it is slightly earlier. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgcYQQ7dFUyT9oQfPu4l0MSrX261ptl15Btp3psWd9tlxjWTdACRj1fnK71GGBYDGl4h2htTWZITDBa5QJNEQ4UdxOlnWmLmpTNNbRWFXaYyxW2l-fXcziiAYR2NbFVGzLDsaPH4cuwQ8leLbt0qqYyKd_zRP4Cr4ZK1u6Gfd5QvIOTkOxI-sHWK_AC=s4032" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgcYQQ7dFUyT9oQfPu4l0MSrX261ptl15Btp3psWd9tlxjWTdACRj1fnK71GGBYDGl4h2htTWZITDBa5QJNEQ4UdxOlnWmLmpTNNbRWFXaYyxW2l-fXcziiAYR2NbFVGzLDsaPH4cuwQ8leLbt0qqYyKd_zRP4Cr4ZK1u6Gfd5QvIOTkOxI-sHWK_AC=w199-h266" width="199" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhLa5Y4Vm8T1xLvU30KbDozRaFNU2Fk2gK4FCcs6TsrXTVkhZgF_R2TKBOr5QCaXRDXHIgcqB573-fK_6sVIWAFZjkpirv9zgbvUIk1Qd5dmrLvdUTUC8RDKGY32NyT5YkKnfn7kC3RwrHAgIjLeBwR66narub-kpvQWyI9w0yvBPXLum53ZYGmkbuS=s2776" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2776" data-original-width="2572" height="267" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhLa5Y4Vm8T1xLvU30KbDozRaFNU2Fk2gK4FCcs6TsrXTVkhZgF_R2TKBOr5QCaXRDXHIgcqB573-fK_6sVIWAFZjkpirv9zgbvUIk1Qd5dmrLvdUTUC8RDKGY32NyT5YkKnfn7kC3RwrHAgIjLeBwR66narub-kpvQWyI9w0yvBPXLum53ZYGmkbuS=w247-h267" width="247" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Lumb Bottles: #246, 180</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Five other 6-Imperial-ounce Apollinaris style bottles were recovered made in semi-automatic machines with the same shape, colour, codes and fonts on the base, but no company initials. Because they are the same, it is safe to assume they also came from John Lumb.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgM5n4NUN7PJji9lUUTS6MWSfQ9JYEu3NDLqNdq2g76SJWg6N6C9RAACzUmFJZOYqv4g0ol8dZxDZeY8wLC5OzjDDNP8UYlVTp5Y2-vfFgXHmWLO8fqVyc5otFHag_D7RpoeWgKDSlLnUFWRnRQ6GZRIRhcuV3E1ANxYiivM6LDTfDLj19f2oGV5XkI=s4032" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="139" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgM5n4NUN7PJji9lUUTS6MWSfQ9JYEu3NDLqNdq2g76SJWg6N6C9RAACzUmFJZOYqv4g0ol8dZxDZeY8wLC5OzjDDNP8UYlVTp5Y2-vfFgXHmWLO8fqVyc5otFHag_D7RpoeWgKDSlLnUFWRnRQ6GZRIRhcuV3E1ANxYiivM6LDTfDLj19f2oGV5XkI=w104-h139" width="104" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh58dWwYmiXnOBy4ZRHcbjKvOX_tilP903xxknuztRWrzMRclLoFhwtEEWTFrj-7B3hgy7FIKi1gFJrUqozUAVKYX8R5nHpt_Nepp1WAF4Dmf3UiXgkg8k_5HosTvlfr-_1XlaJ-BHmb2pF_CYj_FGv01irzGaUPgumA5PE6JYWds9TPWegzhwW0EiM=s4032" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="137" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh58dWwYmiXnOBy4ZRHcbjKvOX_tilP903xxknuztRWrzMRclLoFhwtEEWTFrj-7B3hgy7FIKi1gFJrUqozUAVKYX8R5nHpt_Nepp1WAF4Dmf3UiXgkg8k_5HosTvlfr-_1XlaJ-BHmb2pF_CYj_FGv01irzGaUPgumA5PE6JYWds9TPWegzhwW0EiM=w103-h137" width="103" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgAo_ak3JtzdRawh7ZrUc2nMLQRHoTYzWNUZPe950Oa6U607TW_RBW6tPKX8Fn12RPBXVVclWJ_cL1yXCNn9DtjgHAYut-ytagd_rX8xFZGHaAKL4ZxfIqrYVoUt-PZUGrzHp7-2VQfGj3g17eTdtxBWsOlWX3M1TjJYeUQv-h7MNVkGjEJvxb7zm9D=s4032" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="137" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgAo_ak3JtzdRawh7ZrUc2nMLQRHoTYzWNUZPe950Oa6U607TW_RBW6tPKX8Fn12RPBXVVclWJ_cL1yXCNn9DtjgHAYut-ytagd_rX8xFZGHaAKL4ZxfIqrYVoUt-PZUGrzHp7-2VQfGj3g17eTdtxBWsOlWX3M1TjJYeUQv-h7MNVkGjEJvxb7zm9D=w102-h137" width="102" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhU3TpOWLJ8Osc66PAkfV8RmnB0JbDtpBJkWcRdtiCHI7DeQgnr6z-75jP7-ct8v8fHFBvC6S1GK4wI4f9-Vnki1uKtbI4NF_ARZnUVVZecr8cdSo0a3VjX0tKZ6hfxPqmILsfVXt9EQJXNWzXtn_kSrrtY_p-6UmPLv3_ZTF7BZ08IBhdeGrgF7P2K=s4032" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="137" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhU3TpOWLJ8Osc66PAkfV8RmnB0JbDtpBJkWcRdtiCHI7DeQgnr6z-75jP7-ct8v8fHFBvC6S1GK4wI4f9-Vnki1uKtbI4NF_ARZnUVVZecr8cdSo0a3VjX0tKZ6hfxPqmILsfVXt9EQJXNWzXtn_kSrrtY_p-6UmPLv3_ZTF7BZ08IBhdeGrgF7P2K=w103-h137" width="103" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiyyrMfwguJkBG3RAbTongbzq0uEy7YrTdta5UwmDIQ2osbjEuPuK-SHsZI7sDrYfHko02YB301hoMSSuoRz3562kZhvNtI0KAPnhoGHdAzbmC9yfWcX2UcDjUlMwL0Vnc0x95Nceuy3hx6k-mqopK05LNw_1B6nLm8j055ceUPN1wZTILLkwNoDGGE=s4032" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="140" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiyyrMfwguJkBG3RAbTongbzq0uEy7YrTdta5UwmDIQ2osbjEuPuK-SHsZI7sDrYfHko02YB301hoMSSuoRz3562kZhvNtI0KAPnhoGHdAzbmC9yfWcX2UcDjUlMwL0Vnc0x95Nceuy3hx6k-mqopK05LNw_1B6nLm8j055ceUPN1wZTILLkwNoDGGE=w106-h140" width="106" /></a></div><span style="font-size: x-small;">#216-220</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Because of the semi-automatic mould seams (1905) and the end date of the site, all these bottles date from ca. 1905-1915.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div><br /></div></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2886737049184020992.post-38282097285833233142022-01-31T13:08:00.001-07:002022-01-31T13:08:09.452-07:00Vancouver's Scavengers<p>Before Vancouver, B.C. had "Garbage Collectors"- or as we said when I was a kid: "Garbage Men" - they had "Scavangers".</p><p>Private companies used to remove trash for people, apparently not only being paid, but also scavenging through materials for sellable garbage as the name suggests. The 1896 <a href="https://bccd.vpl.ca/index.php/browse/title/1896/Vancouver_City_Directory" target="_blank">Vancouver City Directory </a> has a list of 4 scavenger companies in Vancouver - also three in Victoria and one in New West:</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuufyGy86ZsPpaKif13bu5ZlmkRn7DhL2mUMx1rM9-BQowDz2FuThzJyVMn43KwuZ7ed5pynYAv2bezTLqqLC8xZEFwHSmnz_KQjxvTdpmBz21-YHMG1DrLKeg5JOm0XfP2KVpGqF6zqM/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="440" data-original-width="642" height="219" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuufyGy86ZsPpaKif13bu5ZlmkRn7DhL2mUMx1rM9-BQowDz2FuThzJyVMn43KwuZ7ed5pynYAv2bezTLqqLC8xZEFwHSmnz_KQjxvTdpmBz21-YHMG1DrLKeg5JOm0XfP2KVpGqF6zqM/" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">These scavengers would dump the garbage they could not salvage. False Creek was used for such dumping events, and there are likely many dump areas underneath a lot of beautiful apartment buildings and parks in the city. But one of those dumping areas seems to have been accepted as the consolidated dump at the south end of the Cambie Street Bridge.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">In 1907 an incinerator (a Heenan Froude) was installed at 120 Barnard St. (Union St.). The city was getting more involved in garbage collection around this time and bought out the largest private scavenging company in the city. But the official city scavenging system was “incomplete” and private scavengers remained in business (The Province August 14, 1908 p.16). Obviously, the scavengers sold what they could, but would have hauled the excess waste to a dump. A practice that the city would not allow with their own scavenger crew (Vancouver Daily World October 18, 1916:16). </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi7hzkcHXUVqG0fI8aiSTdujtm--NoH-GpeJ7DuWcrpTE_MVI9h6wOMx0HTgXNEbGJAY2sqhOYyWDRtmZ1h7At93aU1S5KGwNlYKgK-SJwsEpibV1HUQ93mfGVsoEi6qyQomAucv82hGu3g8PVTHheo7TYQHkpHB7udGl6JlwyWsWw39Wui0XQLYsAn=s3000" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2259" data-original-width="3000" height="482" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi7hzkcHXUVqG0fI8aiSTdujtm--NoH-GpeJ7DuWcrpTE_MVI9h6wOMx0HTgXNEbGJAY2sqhOYyWDRtmZ1h7At93aU1S5KGwNlYKgK-SJwsEpibV1HUQ93mfGVsoEi6qyQomAucv82hGu3g8PVTHheo7TYQHkpHB7udGl6JlwyWsWw39Wui0XQLYsAn=w640-h482" width="640" /></a></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Figure 12. Vancouver City Scavenging Department 120 Union Street 1913 (CVA AM54-S4-: LP 19). </div><div><br /></div></div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj26jy4lgo6Mo3d_ubtXeFLjyqKzzdDqy4zrrkWvfP1iS5mXArw4L2ZrpP5xoV0DV5UVh5JX6GVfKMTIAwqxszAssmBkVMpPLC-jLNMPiI8E27kdwRtXfqXppLZSPUggQlDGRawY3u-xYbVxTEknnyJikvDKSDKKIoLwlkrcM7_p9zbKDMofNqznMVx=s6492" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3730" data-original-width="6492" height="368" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj26jy4lgo6Mo3d_ubtXeFLjyqKzzdDqy4zrrkWvfP1iS5mXArw4L2ZrpP5xoV0DV5UVh5JX6GVfKMTIAwqxszAssmBkVMpPLC-jLNMPiI8E27kdwRtXfqXppLZSPUggQlDGRawY3u-xYbVxTEknnyJikvDKSDKKIoLwlkrcM7_p9zbKDMofNqznMVx=w640-h368" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Map showing location of the above photograph (taken from the left side of the property) at 120 Union St. The road in the middle with the street car lines is Main. (CVA Map 342b.07)</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><br /><br /><p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2886737049184020992.post-348419644014075982022-01-22T10:33:00.002-07:002022-01-22T10:33:55.317-07:00The Merry Widow Sauce<p> The Merry Widow Sauce</p><p>Bristol, U.K.</p><p>Purnell & Panter (Sauce)</p><p>Ca. 1907 - ca. 1926</p><p>#30</p><p>One “The Merry Widow Sauce” bottle was found on site (False Creek Flats, 2021). It is a mould blown bottle made in a 3-piece cup-bottom mould. A small dot is embossed in the centre of the base. The bottle was about 20 cm tall (at least more than 17 cm) and 4.5 cm across on the base. The bottle is broken where there was a string rim about half-way down the neck. Embossing reads: “THE MERRY / WIDOW/ SAUCE” on three recessed panels. The fourth panel is not recessed. There is no maker’s mark to indicate who made the bottle, but two newspaper articles attribute it to Purnell & Panter in Bristol, UK. Merry Widow Sauce was created to market the Operetta “The Merry Widow”, which premiered in London in 1907 (Scott 2014; Traubner 2003:231).</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj-oT2NfNdU9_C8yUEK7U9mPk8_6x-VmFGfk4hKwbN-oxjNQwLjpvyU8PtU6UgZV7qB2GDaJSCrRr8OXAXAMxvtzBpsWAkaVz3Qov2vIRgwSCjEjkPgv_RQDf7s2oiXCoeWxq2ZW6hfsThUkiTZ3ZabK5Xg5n1QIwLObVsEJmiXG4Pha_TqPkrmvXmO=s2991" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="977" data-original-width="2991" height="105" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj-oT2NfNdU9_C8yUEK7U9mPk8_6x-VmFGfk4hKwbN-oxjNQwLjpvyU8PtU6UgZV7qB2GDaJSCrRr8OXAXAMxvtzBpsWAkaVz3Qov2vIRgwSCjEjkPgv_RQDf7s2oiXCoeWxq2ZW6hfsThUkiTZ3ZabK5Xg5n1QIwLObVsEJmiXG4Pha_TqPkrmvXmO=s320" width="320" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg_FqxZ5HHM9RVlSnKXQsSbNHbFb6TxwV9tghH-Sh2fXj1QHSqfAhLkIVyKZF0sMYnzYvVVclNJ7V9tjhrKaCroUFTSVzNxGIcdeTcvgCBt65pENu0ZhT6NjIiRPuwDDIgm_2E4QXSUkDUAnYYOgV_i_EqZj6qAVtGDSHkMNAuaPUX5n6iz0edTvymw=s3108" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3108" data-original-width="1298" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg_FqxZ5HHM9RVlSnKXQsSbNHbFb6TxwV9tghH-Sh2fXj1QHSqfAhLkIVyKZF0sMYnzYvVVclNJ7V9tjhrKaCroUFTSVzNxGIcdeTcvgCBt65pENu0ZhT6NjIiRPuwDDIgm_2E4QXSUkDUAnYYOgV_i_EqZj6qAVtGDSHkMNAuaPUX5n6iz0edTvymw=s320" width="134" /></a><span style="text-align: left;"> </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Merry Widow Sauce bottle recovered from False Creek #30</span></div><p></p><p>A couple of ads from the Edmonton Journal in 1913 and 1914 call it a Worcestershire Sauce. One from the Vancouver Sun (June 6, 1912, p.16) describes it as: “Delicious, fruity, appetizing”. Two ads from Hampshire, England (Southern Echo, December 21 and 30, 1910) called it “Piquant and Fascinating” and “The Acme of Perfection”. In all, there are 14 ads found on <i>Newspapers.com</i> between March 1912 and February 1915 from Vancouver and Edmonton for “Merry Widow Sauce”. There are 11 ads found on the <i>British Newspaper Archive</i> from November and December, 1910, from Hampshire, and one ad from August, 1911, from Cornwall. There is also mention of Purnell & Panter (Bristol) making a “Merry Widow” Sauce in 1926 (Western Mail October 7, 1926 p.11). </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYUJB2abXZ6gFhUbbtUkR_0LvqrSneEQrvEBNzSaeK4uI_kvClv6oARWoWabVbM2f8s5YyNI8XBSr1S0sBxBfZJHkuxr2ccjGCDXuWzSEoezsprMIA4sc_VLE9VNXpzsoyfJvN0ojj7Vs/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="410" data-original-width="810" height="162" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYUJB2abXZ6gFhUbbtUkR_0LvqrSneEQrvEBNzSaeK4uI_kvClv6oARWoWabVbM2f8s5YyNI8XBSr1S0sBxBfZJHkuxr2ccjGCDXuWzSEoezsprMIA4sc_VLE9VNXpzsoyfJvN0ojj7Vs/" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">The Evening Mail (Halifax, N.S., Canada) February 16, 1912, p.3.</span></div><p>An American newspaper posted the menu for a conference in 1909 in which was listed “Merry Widow Drill Sauce, Peppery” (The Butte Daily Post October 11, 1909, p.8). This description does not match any of the descriptions above, and this appears to have been a hot sauce - a hot sauce called "Drill Sauce" is still available <a href="https://www.modernproducers.com/products/drill-sauce?variant=39612856664144" target="_blank">online</a> (I am not endorsing it, nor am I a paid sponsor - just providing the link in case you're interested). Another mention of The Merry Widow Sauce is found in an auction catalogue from Australia (<a href="https://www.abcrauctions.com/pdfs/CATALOGUE_11_web.pdf">https://www.abcrauctions.com/pdfs/CATALOGUE_11_web.pdf</a>). All the catalogue says is that it is an unusual name for a sauce bottle and is from the UK – no date was provided nor the reason that it was from the UK.</p><p>So – it seems this was a cooking or serving sauce made in the UK and sold at least in Southern England, Australia, and Western Canada between 1905 and at least 1926. </p><p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigmPIGv5zkfF1jGFDiD82LLYs9OqpOlqHAk7eUnRYQWsf74e35k6XqRVx8GPWGWlB1sbCVH-f830mt1OZTrxuVv6szwiZ992bVjS21dWN_Xki09FnFiDKd6uLWKkCi-L-6TA_9G_8EE3U/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="614" data-original-width="266" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigmPIGv5zkfF1jGFDiD82LLYs9OqpOlqHAk7eUnRYQWsf74e35k6XqRVx8GPWGWlB1sbCVH-f830mt1OZTrxuVv6szwiZ992bVjS21dWN_Xki09FnFiDKd6uLWKkCi-L-6TA_9G_8EE3U/w173-h400/image.png" width="173" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="text-align: left;">Photo of the same bottle type seen </span><a href="https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/victorian-merry-widow-sauce-bottle-275390369 " style="text-align: left;" target="_blank">online</a><span style="text-align: left;"> - unbroken</span></span><span style="text-align: left;"> </span></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj1R2OoXWJUkK7oxDQwYad0QxXyjhf-HbIEHRX3Y-2b7f61H_O8_QBjnHv3yF95WAXmIJ8IGpSgOQ-3mPtePCGCv91j6jZ9vg1n-HimPWKvSuJxeDBLR8cTOdlFr2WdKm7gWvHnF3QgfLvdXMvcXnJVIGUGNQgy03-f1UtwIoOAywye-0nrWHYtz3C_=s838" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="390" data-original-width="838" height="186" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj1R2OoXWJUkK7oxDQwYad0QxXyjhf-HbIEHRX3Y-2b7f61H_O8_QBjnHv3yF95WAXmIJ8IGpSgOQ-3mPtePCGCv91j6jZ9vg1n-HimPWKvSuJxeDBLR8cTOdlFr2WdKm7gWvHnF3QgfLvdXMvcXnJVIGUGNQgy03-f1UtwIoOAywye-0nrWHYtz3C_=w400-h186" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Ad from “Southern Echo” paper, <a href="https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/BL/0000628/19101209/061/0004?browse=true " target="_blank">December 9, 1910 </a>p.4 </span></span></div><p></p><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><br /><p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2886737049184020992.post-11389989868917387592021-12-21T15:35:00.007-07:002022-01-03T17:19:00.264-07:00Walker's Kilmarnock Whisky and John Lumb & Co.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Not to be confused with Hiram Walker’s Club Whisky of Ontario, Walker’s Kilmarnock (Scotch) Whisky is what we now know as Johnnie Walker’s. Production of Walker’s whisky started in in the 1820s when a young Johnnie Walker started blending his own whiskies in the back of his grocery store, which he started when he was 14 years old after his father died. The company remained in the family until the 1920s.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">In the 1860s, the Walker company started using square bottles – they were stronger and more could fit into a case so they were cheaper and easier to ship (because of their proximity to the famous Glasgow and Greenock ports, sailing Captains could act as agents for the company and the brand became popular all over the world after this time). In 1865, the first commercial blend of Walker’s was introduced under the name “Old Highland Whisky”. The “Old Highland Whisky” and “Walker’s Kilmarnock Whisky” names were used until around 1908 when the whisky was re-branded as “Johnnie Walker’s Whisky”. In the case of exports, the bottle likely would have lagged in the market for a couple more years. The bottles found at False Creek would be part of the fill brought to the area before 1913 and would date from before then, fitting with this timeline.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">A complete Walker’s Kilmarnock Whiskey bottle was recently recovered from the <a href="https://sandiratch.blogspot.com/2021/12/st-pauls-hospital-history-of-new.html" target="_blank">St. Paul's excavation</a> in False Creek Flats in Vancouver, BC. </div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhBn_r5oy5dGTWtFGsjzCnwUaJdiM8s8nzBPYBLZV6GT85XzRTZIjH9vlxa5-M1QFFe1tLA3BTtXGrCbLhHS_-urLLaNuOxhUz-gZRR4zs8b0qR0DyxfNbXtM_RHodwQEvmStYwf_pB7zt6tU5ft-HhCgduqq1y4MSYXrXrfi3Z34oOzNqichLOt7zI=s4032" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhBn_r5oy5dGTWtFGsjzCnwUaJdiM8s8nzBPYBLZV6GT85XzRTZIjH9vlxa5-M1QFFe1tLA3BTtXGrCbLhHS_-urLLaNuOxhUz-gZRR4zs8b0qR0DyxfNbXtM_RHodwQEvmStYwf_pB7zt6tU5ft-HhCgduqq1y4MSYXrXrfi3Z34oOzNqichLOt7zI=w300-h400" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh1Ahlt0-_8AYY3h9tjG_O5SLDIpnFoWBJc7JdF5CzBLS6mAq0Hy_UkurSKwC2jV8qpNDiYUkRgVdB4u21SC-rCMMdIuWjAPEg5r5Evp-gjD08yjAOi1-vpGHbBbsU-_4oLo1PilFOAtKf-7Wm9cWEMxFxWI6Mn9RZ8BLc7wZ3xgUUxOta-7lX5E0xw=s2369" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2369" data-original-width="2132" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh1Ahlt0-_8AYY3h9tjG_O5SLDIpnFoWBJc7JdF5CzBLS6mAq0Hy_UkurSKwC2jV8qpNDiYUkRgVdB4u21SC-rCMMdIuWjAPEg5r5Evp-gjD08yjAOi1-vpGHbBbsU-_4oLo1PilFOAtKf-7Wm9cWEMxFxWI6Mn9RZ8BLc7wZ3xgUUxOta-7lX5E0xw=s320" width="288" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p>Until now, I would have considered this a mould-blown bottle. There are no ghost seams on the bottom or going up the sides, no parison scars on the base, and it looks like it could be mould-blown. But it is not. Along one of the side seams, a very faint ghost seam can be seen on the shoulder and neck (more visible in the first photo below than to the naked eye). And there are mould seams that go around the neck below the string rim, one above the string rim, and a very faint mould seam extending up the finish - something that would not have been noticeable to someone who didn't know what they were looking for.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjeuPFpBvNZyGaD5dSHaROTqXMYleD5bcYK3Niet1aHCBNHYULacp5bhoEoJPF7uU8KqJ7B5JA__XsJNi-kMRpYq428UUYx2-nUkeP0FakJZzZxagJKXDHn-8d9jM6ZwZDMWUDwb5qbe3JDk64HqDDsrm5SZdZvpQ7Njy2AJeIggiaOoFkB5pk4Rsdu=s4032" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjeuPFpBvNZyGaD5dSHaROTqXMYleD5bcYK3Niet1aHCBNHYULacp5bhoEoJPF7uU8KqJ7B5JA__XsJNi-kMRpYq428UUYx2-nUkeP0FakJZzZxagJKXDHn-8d9jM6ZwZDMWUDwb5qbe3JDk64HqDDsrm5SZdZvpQ7Njy2AJeIggiaOoFkB5pk4Rsdu=w240-h320" width="240" /></a> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">On one side you can clearly see the ghost seam and primary seam on the neck as well as the seams above and below the string rim.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjGWfJNcDVC5HMfO6eYFuhbCGYryABe75F6FM6cRRZiaRnBofsdBZffTJVNd6DZixnM_qmuvYlILcVg5eepFKMDjxFT5raqYuSSisqir4klSjbJE2hWFhqVTOsKfxc4yXq_cz9teDzhaNcCk1x6MeuscohAUy0nlOYP-jG7D-K1Kody9xRI8uniW5hA=s4032" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjGWfJNcDVC5HMfO6eYFuhbCGYryABe75F6FM6cRRZiaRnBofsdBZffTJVNd6DZixnM_qmuvYlILcVg5eepFKMDjxFT5raqYuSSisqir4klSjbJE2hWFhqVTOsKfxc4yXq_cz9teDzhaNcCk1x6MeuscohAUy0nlOYP-jG7D-K1Kody9xRI8uniW5hA=s320" width="240" /></a> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgOIQECKzpPoHPMdQ73QvdjK7sOca-JiyAEhw-b3LE1KHreNM5JztvX5V9oukEaARWMwtnnPxWY0dmzINJCL7ohU1gw-ngWTD0PuD23-37aijNjGaGapp8F66Xyr7ixhiLuBMIlydM3XMOtl-hI-GvUr0kwKL6lW0q1SrqwaxQhoixQMzLhRpvtwIrh=s4032" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgOIQECKzpPoHPMdQ73QvdjK7sOca-JiyAEhw-b3LE1KHreNM5JztvX5V9oukEaARWMwtnnPxWY0dmzINJCL7ohU1gw-ngWTD0PuD23-37aijNjGaGapp8F66Xyr7ixhiLuBMIlydM3XMOtl-hI-GvUr0kwKL6lW0q1SrqwaxQhoixQMzLhRpvtwIrh=s320" width="240" /></a></div></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">On the shoulder, you can see the ghost seam following the main seam down (left) and then fading out (right)</span></div><div><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiLlhgyW4URR85ivKDQ5pgAI_zN3c5129yZOJRs3d-j5nkCHd6intBOT4XR2Oa3BDeat-40KoQMeAIVzJ86LDuPqlkCm-wtUJrFLsNebt7duxNHrzW091RVD8TPq_YPw4M7FimGntPICcs2bVolR5IQwvannuSS0L2g5C-_H8LB79dRgqwbH_cFsW4K=s960" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="720" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiLlhgyW4URR85ivKDQ5pgAI_zN3c5129yZOJRs3d-j5nkCHd6intBOT4XR2Oa3BDeat-40KoQMeAIVzJ86LDuPqlkCm-wtUJrFLsNebt7duxNHrzW091RVD8TPq_YPw4M7FimGntPICcs2bVolR5IQwvannuSS0L2g5C-_H8LB79dRgqwbH_cFsW4K=s320" width="240" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">On the other side, you can just faintly see the seam extending up onto the finish.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I found a reference in <a href="https://www.amazon.ca/Long-Stride-Worlds-Scotch-Whisky/dp/1838852077/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2G9XSPOGWSIIH&keywords=A+Long+Stride&qid=1640125555&sprefix=a+long+stride%2Caps%2C98&sr=8-1" target="_blank">"A Long Stride"</a> - a recently published book on Johnnie Walker's history by Dr. Nicholas Morgan - to Walker's using John Lumb & Co. as their bottle supplier by the "early twentieth century." John Lumb & Co. were one of the first companies in the UK to dedicate their furnaces to the bottle making machine, instead of the manual bottle blower. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">As early as 1904 John Lumb & Co. had decided to dispense with mould-blown operations and concentrate on their machine line (Turner 1938:254). Invented in-house, Lumb used the <b>Simpson-Bradshaw</b> semi-automatic machine, which was patented in 1901 (GB patents 21,158; 21,521). They started out with 8 machines, by 1907 they had 23 machines, and by 1914 had 38. In 1913, Walker's loaned Lumb money to acquire patents to fully automate their Simpson-Bradshaw machines.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">By 1915, John Lumb & Co. was being taken over completely by Walker’s Whisky (Johnnie Walker’s) (Morgan 2021:125), so now Johnnie Walkers were basically making their own bottles and didn't have to worry about acquisition - an important development given WWI and a new demand for UK-made bottles. <br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" />Although Walker’s still makes a relatively inexpensive and very popular scotch, their more expensive labels are quite pricey. Today, a bottle of Johnnie Walker’s Blue Label Whisky can sell for over $300 CAD.</div><div><br /></div></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2886737049184020992.post-49528607371961212802021-12-07T16:43:00.027-07:002022-08-18T12:07:49.271-06:00St. Paul's Hospital - A history of the new hospital site.<p><i>I'm working on an archaeological collection that was found on the new St. Paul's Hospital property in the False Creek Flats area of Vancouver, BC - just southeast of where Main St. (Westminster Ave.) and Prior St. used to cross. I'm only providing the history of the property here, because it is fascinating and I wanted to share it with someone.</i></p><p><i><b>History of the False Creek Flats Property </b></i></p><p>Excavations that provided the artifacts for an archaeological analysis are estimated to be from Lots 10-15 on the south side of Prior Street in Vancouver's False Creek Flats region (east of Main St., on and to the right of the number 25 in Figure 1). These equate to the addresses between 234 and 248 Prior Street between Park Lane and Gore Avenue. This 1912 Fire Insurance map clearly shows the buildings within these lots. And the original water line can be seen cutting through the property.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZVV6gburvLm0uGv9KrdMx1_uegpygOliZfh_b_Q9Sa5SaSoDhUsb4DrtIDwU3uTjNPO-tnaOD4L_sO3qJeAm84RXb0j8UTKTfmHT3XQK3JIaaP4fHvWR_A94aNf8ZHlT3Hou1bn0eUOUUO-c2vllpoJ_tb10SC4ieXf1NgtQyA8Gx7ZfEx8xTbC7V/s2197/1912%20fire%20insurance%20map%20with%20study%20area%20and%20Trench%20B%20CVA%20Map%20342b.07.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2197" data-original-width="2146" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZVV6gburvLm0uGv9KrdMx1_uegpygOliZfh_b_Q9Sa5SaSoDhUsb4DrtIDwU3uTjNPO-tnaOD4L_sO3qJeAm84RXb0j8UTKTfmHT3XQK3JIaaP4fHvWR_A94aNf8ZHlT3Hou1bn0eUOUUO-c2vllpoJ_tb10SC4ieXf1NgtQyA8Gx7ZfEx8xTbC7V/w626-h640/1912%20fire%20insurance%20map%20with%20study%20area%20and%20Trench%20B%20CVA%20Map%20342b.07.png" width="626" /></a></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Figure 1. 1912 Fire Insurance Map showing the properties of Interest - Main Street is on the left (City of Vancouver Archives [CVA] MAP 342b.07)</span></div><p><b><i>Panama Canal 1915</i></b></p><p>With the upcoming opening of the Panama Canal in 1915, cities all up and down the West Coast of North America prepared for much busier harbours. Vancouver was no exception. All levels of government knew they would be able to attract more people to this rapidly growing city. The natural beauty of BC would attract the tourists, the money to be made from Western Canada’s natural resources would attract business, and that in turn would continue to drive immigration. Permanent residents were already moving to the city in droves.</p><p>Planning had been going on for over a decade, but by 1914 a very large, new dock (800 ft long and 300 ft wide) was being built on the south shore of Burrard Inlet between Commercial and Salisbury Drives, the east basin of False Creek was being filled to house two new railway stations and all that implies, and a sea wall was being constructed (Vancouver Sun, April 6, 1914 p.66). After only 28 years as an incorporated city, Vancouver had been doing nothing but grow into the successful harbour the federal government had always needed: an anchor to connect the West Coast to the eastern hub of the country and protect this more vulnerable part of Canada from American interests. Millions of dollars were spent on the improvements. But it had taken a few years to get here.</p><p><i><b>The Development of False Creek Pre-1900</b></i></p><p>The first commercial venture in Vancouver was Edward Stamp’s Mill just east of Coal Harbour on Burrard Inlet. The lumber industry was huge in the early years of Vancouver (it's still one of BC's biggest industries), and logging likely first affected the east basin of False Creek (the False Creek Flats) when Jeremiah Rogers began to log its eastern slopes in the 1870s. In 1872, the first bridge over False Creek at Westminster Ave (Main Street) was built.</p><p>This 1876 map details the lots that were already laid out and claimed. The Government Reserve of Granville (pink property just right of centre) was the beginnings of the city that would develop here. Ten years later the city of Vancouver was incorporated in April 1886 just after the CPR was completed and one month before the first passenger train left Montreal for the west coast. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjuQdLxAGwoSpAZDuAk0fGMKW4_81vNFqIbScRdCweTATQb_FkcyYy5n7Yi73HRaU1xuVPuoEAfaPgROwzFfKClsYkrzdc9eeW-qd-rW5uN9riB8N5nIX1VbfEYLP_s5CS2h1JAKxXpdyKixaz7ZrRlwlq8ijbvfodFg5V_tY7RP7zBx3pHQRkrxOvj=s3080" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1678" data-original-width="3080" height="348" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjuQdLxAGwoSpAZDuAk0fGMKW4_81vNFqIbScRdCweTATQb_FkcyYy5n7Yi73HRaU1xuVPuoEAfaPgROwzFfKClsYkrzdc9eeW-qd-rW5uN9riB8N5nIX1VbfEYLP_s5CS2h1JAKxXpdyKixaz7ZrRlwlq8ijbvfodFg5V_tY7RP7zBx3pHQRkrxOvj=w640-h348" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Figure 2. False Creek shown on 1876 map in relation to other lands. G.R. is Government Reserve, I.R. is Indian Reserve, H.S.M.Co is the Hastings Saw Mill Company timber leases – the first commercial operation in the area around which the settlement of Vancouver developed (shown here as Stamp’s Mill on Burrard Inlet just north of the red rectangle) (CVA AM1594-:Map 2). Red rectangle indicates general area of study.</span></div><p>False Creek, when Vancouver was first being colonized, was a place for colonizers to conduct business that was tied to the water – like logging and wood processing. It also was utilized for recreational purposes, and as a dumping ground for refuse. None of these purposes would have interfered with the others at first, but as the city grew, they all came into conflict.</p><p>By 1887, the area we are interested in (Lots 10-15 on the south side of Prior Street) was starting to become populated – a few buildings are highlighted on this 1887 map, but no indication of a dump is seen. The “Waggon Bridge” is prominent, though.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEih7mK2QqZgtEaAmqfUvANcjb6ZesjBAuYkvwyLRJyyrkcIGrX4XJ91Q46rZhYKHdhzTwsJOAhK3_9uudAF_SJE0pc6eHGRJx8z_OcPZ1gjzMad74j9jErKTZ6erpDRTwphgl_h0L1CHUdx-bfKsAo4rfc8ZB2N0GY7jTjvjsYW5JkzBhKN7cduYfS4/s3333/1887%20map%20with%20study%20area.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3307" data-original-width="3333" height="636" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEih7mK2QqZgtEaAmqfUvANcjb6ZesjBAuYkvwyLRJyyrkcIGrX4XJ91Q46rZhYKHdhzTwsJOAhK3_9uudAF_SJE0pc6eHGRJx8z_OcPZ1gjzMad74j9jErKTZ6erpDRTwphgl_h0L1CHUdx-bfKsAo4rfc8ZB2N0GY7jTjvjsYW5JkzBhKN7cduYfS4/w640-h636/1887%20map%20with%20study%20area.png" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Figure 3. Detail of 1887 map of Vancouver (CVA AM1594-: MAP 372-: 1972-563.2)</span></div><p></p><p>You can see, in the photo below (and the map above), the wagon bridge that was built on the south end of Westminster Avenue (Main Street) – the excavation property is beyond and to the right of the large white building (hotel?) at the end of the bridge. Again, there no clear indication in this photograph of the area being used as a dump. But it would be logical for local businesses to toss their debris into the water-logged area (the depth of the water here is very shallow – most of the east basin was mud flats covered at high water, a small area directly to the east of the bridge was 1/4 to 3 ¼ m deep, presumably at low tide). </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtzf4NWARM4-DRbOksWPTuYsFaG8pTT9EdzklBuZqAY6JqI40_f50Lud06txzappZ7MJ2drOyNhE480SwYv0jO9anZMjK-frtqLM2Q88ZaLWEANRs4wVko5dvTO3S3eAW6KpCVleGcJpnoyiV6MNRL2URfINFe6acZRXqe84MbUmju0ARmpDPFgscv/s2026/1889%20photo%20with%20area%20outlined.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1442" data-original-width="2026" height="456" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtzf4NWARM4-DRbOksWPTuYsFaG8pTT9EdzklBuZqAY6JqI40_f50Lud06txzappZ7MJ2drOyNhE480SwYv0jO9anZMjK-frtqLM2Q88ZaLWEANRs4wVko5dvTO3S3eAW6KpCVleGcJpnoyiV6MNRL2URfINFe6acZRXqe84MbUmju0ARmpDPFgscv/w640-h456/1889%20photo%20with%20area%20outlined.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Figure 4. 1889 photograph (detail), showing Westminster Avenue (Main Street) with “Waggon Bridge” and our general area of interest facing north – Gore is the road extending from the water on the right, Westminster (Main) on the left (CVA AM54-S4-: </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Van Sc P60) </span></div><p></p><p>The 1889 fire insurance map below shows the same area with Westminster Avenue on the left. Gore is the street heading north in the upper right-hand corner. We see clearly here that there were two buildings in the general location we are looking at. One is a Chinese laundry, the other is a wooden building with a shed. Both are on platforms off this little inlet of mudflat. I am quite surprised that no Chinese-specific artifacts have been identified in the collection because there was a substantial Chinese presence in the area. That could have been a preservation issue, or more likely related to people digging at the site and removing the Chinese artifacts.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTRWfTED5wTDYwVYLZGrOq_U71EVSJge74wbvTEDYmqbQWwaakndfgoMojRXWBG2lGlwslAS2YDuK9r25fPO2PinBIZDvSbDtOchAjjAPEwRAVBz-w1stFLdC-_G6q5K-iKo3S7QZJsUx3FAUnx2sKXcIwMqbhJ_GFVuUAM5zFzFJNFpJZDtS9txno/s2725/1889%20FI%20map%20with%20study%20area.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2725" data-original-width="1641" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTRWfTED5wTDYwVYLZGrOq_U71EVSJge74wbvTEDYmqbQWwaakndfgoMojRXWBG2lGlwslAS2YDuK9r25fPO2PinBIZDvSbDtOchAjjAPEwRAVBz-w1stFLdC-_G6q5K-iKo3S7QZJsUx3FAUnx2sKXcIwMqbhJ_GFVuUAM5zFzFJNFpJZDtS9txno/w386-h640/1889%20FI%20map%20with%20study%20area.png" width="386" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Figure 5. 1889 fire insurance maps (CVA LEG1319.494) </span></div><p>This panoramic view of Vancouver shows the north shore of the east end of False Creek in 1898. Again, no indication of messy dumping activity is to be seen on this pristine promotional map.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi_lEgFSOG3PzwL-_G0kh-UNEStNyj5shx-ByApqwXSV9ne-ke-ouhKGKgRJHTf574OGypCA5Zca7EM0XsHV9n6PkJPoDr8Er5J6m5yCDzBVPwQlSFGbJxEo7ouSRtxih7OU1fzvICPwXWpx0-ch_yvKynT6yLFV1aH9bMHzc0Va_ZJVxMK6ImETavA=s2268" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="998" data-original-width="2268" height="282" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi_lEgFSOG3PzwL-_G0kh-UNEStNyj5shx-ByApqwXSV9ne-ke-ouhKGKgRJHTf574OGypCA5Zca7EM0XsHV9n6PkJPoDr8Er5J6m5yCDzBVPwQlSFGbJxEo7ouSRtxih7OU1fzvICPwXWpx0-ch_yvKynT6yLFV1aH9bMHzc0Va_ZJVxMK6ImETavA=w640-h282" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Figure 6. Detail of “Panoramic view of the City of Vancouver, British Columbia, 1898” facing south with wagon bridge in top right corner (CVA MAP 547)</span></div><p><i><b>The Development of False Creek Flats After 1900</b></i></p><p>As early as 1901 there were discussions about how to best develop False Creek. By 1906, this map was produced showing proposed dredging, wharves, and a pier (Granville Island) in the main portion of False Creek. The map also shows the “Mud flats (of the eastern portion of False Creek) covered at high water granted to the City of Vancouver by order in Council 8th June, 1901” on the right side of the map.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjKodbkq6YCrIlLWpdwE79zraTqXonguKUiXXfwfa1AMHedM5ogjh3Gh_GESyzG_SmUTjEM59y1OWR2zM6wAmCtTWZwxklD1mmPZ6j3Dwov8f2PvPHEsRipiIRRLadE40Jk-2yZqnJv6u79iIbytYsY8MPMPBJ09nkj4-H5Uoeg70X_fY9PzrKpxjRN=s2516" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1250" data-original-width="2516" height="318" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjKodbkq6YCrIlLWpdwE79zraTqXonguKUiXXfwfa1AMHedM5ogjh3Gh_GESyzG_SmUTjEM59y1OWR2zM6wAmCtTWZwxklD1mmPZ6j3Dwov8f2PvPHEsRipiIRRLadE40Jk-2yZqnJv6u79iIbytYsY8MPMPBJ09nkj4-H5Uoeg70X_fY9PzrKpxjRN=w640-h318" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Figure 7. Detail of “Plan of Vancouver Harbour and False Creek, Vancouver, BC” 1906 showing plans for dredging, wharves and a pier (Granville Island) False Creek (AM1594-/ MAP 1161) </span></span></div><p>The excavations that provided these artifacts are estimated to be from Lots 10-15 on the south side of Prior Street. These equate to the addresses between 234 and 248. The 1912 Fire Insurance map clearly shows the buildings within these lots (Figure 1), and this 1901 (1897) map shows that the platforms were built out over the flats before 1897.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjr6pK2XqOUz83YXWdWPni-sGA-wCQ8bXnjPznxd7q6wNr4tzuSRz55isR7bS4QZkway-dGCRCG_rZ9gqFHCEMkEzXULBGioLSd_i_tdkVH9-13myDIQej8Omo_jjdTDPyDsW906P-v-Rg0IGxcTkdqppJYAF9JK5CioXXzymjtEEBg7TN04GeAq9sX/s1326/From%20Don%201897%20FIP%20revised%201901%20Sheet%2012%20cropped%20Outline.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="848" data-original-width="1326" height="410" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjr6pK2XqOUz83YXWdWPni-sGA-wCQ8bXnjPznxd7q6wNr4tzuSRz55isR7bS4QZkway-dGCRCG_rZ9gqFHCEMkEzXULBGioLSd_i_tdkVH9-13myDIQej8Omo_jjdTDPyDsW906P-v-Rg0IGxcTkdqppJYAF9JK5CioXXzymjtEEBg7TN04GeAq9sX/w640-h410/From%20Don%201897%20FIP%20revised%201901%20Sheet%2012%20cropped%20Outline.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Figure 8. 1901 (1887) fire insurance map (LAC R6990-151-5-E plate 12 ID number 3807867)</span></span></div><p>The east basin of False Creek - that portion east of Main (Westminster) Street - as part of the pre-Panama development, was filled-in between 1912 and 1916 to provide more usable land. The dredging of the False Creek channel (west end) commenced April 5, 1912 (The Province, April 20, 1912 p.37), and with very public debates and arguments in the local papers, development continued until the Great Northern Railway Station was opened on June 1, 1917 (Vancouver Sun, June 2, 1917). </p><p>As World War I was raging, Vancouver was at work securing more infrastructure. The newly created land was to be used for the Great Northern Railway station, bringing beauty and passengers to this previously less-than-desirable area, and gently pulling the center of the city a little further south and east.</p><p>About four million cubic yards of fill was needed to make solid land out of the east end of False Creek. By the spring of 1914, “… about one million cubic yards of sand, rock and silt (had been) dredged from the False Creek channel by the Pacific Dredging Co.” (Vancouver Daily World May 15, 1914 p.24). The development of the western (main) portion of False Creek included creating a deep channel, 350 feet wide and 21 feet deep at low tide (Vancouver Sun April 6, 1914 p.67). This would provide deep water access to the businesses on False Creek and fill for the Flats. Some other materials used as fill came from the dredging of the Pitt River – between where it meets the Fraser River and Port Coquitlam (Vancouver Daily World August 7, 1913, p.8). </p><p>The best quality photograph I’ve been able to find of the area where the collection was found is this 1916 photo of the ground already filled and leveled on the south side of Prior and east of Park Lane. This photograph helps us date the collection to before 1916. Should any artifacts show a date absolutely after 1916, we would know there was some disturbance.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgMmVpL9cBoluEawytwJ-6-mS4F3m4ZQi4t_zzMCZrEBD7TYrhWZjKb9hYXQFLgrt1eFCN5cXHMs2gC4outnxPiN_1BJTnZcuIDMOStts59qCtRvd2KnorC4QqFgd6__82dkcWqvNih8HhUop10wjIL-HVCVTwcN9oMwOkbxE2UUacFEAh8k69Dcr3y=s2513" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1251" data-original-width="2513" height="318" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgMmVpL9cBoluEawytwJ-6-mS4F3m4ZQi4t_zzMCZrEBD7TYrhWZjKb9hYXQFLgrt1eFCN5cXHMs2gC4outnxPiN_1BJTnZcuIDMOStts59qCtRvd2KnorC4QqFgd6__82dkcWqvNih8HhUop10wjIL-HVCVTwcN9oMwOkbxE2UUacFEAh8k69Dcr3y=w640-h318" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Figure 9. View of False Creek Flats south of Prior and East of Main 1916 facing north (detail). The first row of houses is on the north side of Prior. Park Lane is the road behind the Ivanhoe Hotel (Cunningham) on the left (CVA AM54-S4-3-: PAN N86) </span></span></div><p>This next photo shows False Creek Flats in April, 1913 facing east from Park Lane (the road on the left of the 1916 image behind the hotel). It is the best photo showing the details of the early fill – which seems to have been through the middle of the water so as to connect park lane with the northern shore of False Creek further east. </p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg7OstQ46MQxblA96CQzRCvtnVyd3H6LDF3ZbYyz1SYOkwK3Px5-nfrJDISwDaFNBxYqb_phUHNiatyjmo8yrEXe2VNdMn6J2jxS-cHGIQ_d9xVGHQF8m0xKGYlftdIZjP9xUTClZW4jy0RCecstmed-iXAymM92rfphcp6zwoiw1F3fMUsBaEKJYcq=s2048" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1531" data-original-width="2048" height="478" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg7OstQ46MQxblA96CQzRCvtnVyd3H6LDF3ZbYyz1SYOkwK3Px5-nfrJDISwDaFNBxYqb_phUHNiatyjmo8yrEXe2VNdMn6J2jxS-cHGIQ_d9xVGHQF8m0xKGYlftdIZjP9xUTClZW4jy0RCecstmed-iXAymM92rfphcp6zwoiw1F3fMUsBaEKJYcq=w640-h478" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Figure 10. View of the north shore of False Creek from Park Lane facing east April 3, 1913 (AM1376-: CVA 113-5). Our area of interest would be out of frame and to the left.</span></span></div><p></p><p>The following photo was taken in July, 1913 from the mainland to the south (to the far right of Figure 10), and shows that the buildings on the south side of Prior were removed by that time. The building jutting into False creek near the left centre of the photo is the Vancouver Creamery – the white building on the left is the Globe Hotel with the Cunningham (Ivanhoe) behind it. You can see the same buildings as in the 1916 photo on the north side of Prior in the centre background. See also the 1912 Fire Insurance Map (Figure 1). Filling of this part of False Creek started in 1913 – for “several months” before October 23 (The Province October 23, 1913 p.22 “Canadian Northern Railway is Going Ahead with Plans for Filling-in of False Creek”). The fill began in this general area because the Great Northern Terminal needed to be started first.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi1jP0zCPK72Ta7u8EkTnT09sAlFLqEtq3Y1H9bqWCOr_-I2ZwjAjAhf_dHrPsSxmlAAAFTtp_le5ny0xQVSiB3thDvKkJesZjT6zMQcrdbwPE6XsRpVeloFI-wQeMZsg-kEr3Tel8KH6jKAKxt2LHXkMzTjDT-ZUSLX7Lzu79xUyavNseC5lxF_trZ=s2830" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="914" data-original-width="2830" height="206" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi1jP0zCPK72Ta7u8EkTnT09sAlFLqEtq3Y1H9bqWCOr_-I2ZwjAjAhf_dHrPsSxmlAAAFTtp_le5ny0xQVSiB3thDvKkJesZjT6zMQcrdbwPE6XsRpVeloFI-wQeMZsg-kEr3Tel8KH6jKAKxt2LHXkMzTjDT-ZUSLX7Lzu79xUyavNseC5lxF_trZ=w640-h206" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWGzUqKlz2wxa0FACHthOy2ps6Y1TP5arcd_aSRNtWoNWRK67Xz__gnr25GNTIEE_9_Lm3HP36ujH5I3EDeAFujTpHF58UVsmRL7MAeu6Vb28cHCBYfA2lkg8NnAG1ckmCq_a_kT3Bs2f51k4tzfYmRWWJCbPYCiaVzR3N3wESDDCGlGNfY4McJjHD/s638/July%201913%20photo%20with%20definitions.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="206" data-original-width="638" height="206" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWGzUqKlz2wxa0FACHthOy2ps6Y1TP5arcd_aSRNtWoNWRK67Xz__gnr25GNTIEE_9_Lm3HP36ujH5I3EDeAFujTpHF58UVsmRL7MAeu6Vb28cHCBYfA2lkg8NnAG1ckmCq_a_kT3Bs2f51k4tzfYmRWWJCbPYCiaVzR3N3wESDDCGlGNfY4McJjHD/w640-h206/July%201913%20photo%20with%20definitions.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><span style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Figure 11. View of general area of interest in July 1913 – note that buildings on south side of Prior are no longer there.</span></div></span><p></p><p><i><b>Garbage Disposal in False Creek Prior to WWI</b></i></p><p>Garbage collection in Vancouver was initially done by private “Scavenger” companies or by property owners and was dumped at various spots in the city. Initially they would have been casual dumping areas, but the dumps that offended the fewer and poorer people would have been used for the longest period of time. </p><p>A “crematory” had been built at the City Yards in 1890 to help deal with some of Vancouver’s waste and dead animals and a dump developed along with it. They smelled and the crematory could no longer handle enough of the waste as the nineteen-hundreds brought thousands of new immigrants. Some popular dumping spots were along False Creek and the Flats – they also smelled, encouraged flies, and were blamed for the spread of water-borne diseases such as Typhoid (Keeling 2004:69). </p><p>In 1907 an incinerator (a Heenan Froude) was installed near the crematory. The city was getting more involved in garbage collection around this time and bought out the largest private scavenging company in the city. But the official city scavenging system was “incomplete” and private scavengers remained in business (The Province August 14, 1908 p.16). Obviously, the scavengers sold what they could, but would have hauled the excess waste to a dump. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgf8UTO5QpbEcMCom7ndWgPgUew0X-BPbd41TdZ1p8IskOCJSDAqw0kggqqPO7wUvob1G2FnUtYll6M5085MunP0qra5z6nVQnJ-CA-njlaKWxM7iEuROKy9Cr_mBA-Z0dnXz2uvZrIFz4tusL2tcoIAYJsk0zDxvKF2mnesRf3C5tbPR6fz-jamCGJ=s2048" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1542" data-original-width="2048" height="482" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgf8UTO5QpbEcMCom7ndWgPgUew0X-BPbd41TdZ1p8IskOCJSDAqw0kggqqPO7wUvob1G2FnUtYll6M5085MunP0qra5z6nVQnJ-CA-njlaKWxM7iEuROKy9Cr_mBA-Z0dnXz2uvZrIFz4tusL2tcoIAYJsk0zDxvKF2mnesRf3C5tbPR6fz-jamCGJ=w640-h482" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Figure 12. Vancouver scavenging department 1913.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><p style="text-align: left;">There were several dump locations in the city, the largest being the city dump at the city yards at the south end of the Cambie Bridge (The World, July 6, 1906). False Creek Flats had its dumps, too.</p><p style="text-align: left;">Prior to filling, the False Creek Flats had shallow water over most of it at high tide, and at low tide a small portion was less than 3.25 m deep (see Figure 7). After the Great Northern Railway Company (GN) and the city agreed to the GN filling False Creek Flats in 1909, the city began to encourage dumping at the south end of Gore Avenue (Luxton 2013:16; Vancouver sun June 9, 1911 p.29). Compare the north shoreline in 1901 (Figures 7 and 13) to one from 1912 (Figure 14):</p></div><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjrc1R48CfyK6PHota0jqYMaDeMg5e51uTRdZku-1ettEIDr0LiGql2IMzIsj236nfRXtVX_vtr0a31Olp4Faa2Je6qM8ZSjg6QzKUVn_jHjUTLQTB2RYDIqoAIqKrappeQZ9X7CMxbhbQz76KCV2skrPpfR9gjyZUDcRf5bFdjC-Wah7WCuvXnpa2e=s792" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="750" data-original-width="792" height="606" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjrc1R48CfyK6PHota0jqYMaDeMg5e51uTRdZku-1ettEIDr0LiGql2IMzIsj236nfRXtVX_vtr0a31Olp4Faa2Je6qM8ZSjg6QzKUVn_jHjUTLQTB2RYDIqoAIqKrappeQZ9X7CMxbhbQz76KCV2skrPpfR9gjyZUDcRf5bFdjC-Wah7WCuvXnpa2e=w640-h606" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-size: x-small;"><div style="text-align: center;">Figure 13. Detail of city of Vancouver Fire insurance Map 1901, plate 30 showing south end of Gore Ave. before dumping was allowed - note that the water starts just south of Prior (LAC R6990-151-5-E)</div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhuybgHbEYxAQ9IJZTTuGXIzA-or2rRNIKWNfeyJVE7SUnUzWPsc14wAtuTkfgUxiSzR0FPVCVDypiZgbg14J9_Yh8SsIKWJhvW9ogRxKY3Il-FzngD_gq7CUppsS_MKtJ0nElq7kChW21QkU6Ls5jdMO0QykP5PBzb0s4l6oObm9LrbI0EJxa07vK8=s1984" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="704" data-original-width="1984" height="228" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhuybgHbEYxAQ9IJZTTuGXIzA-or2rRNIKWNfeyJVE7SUnUzWPsc14wAtuTkfgUxiSzR0FPVCVDypiZgbg14J9_Yh8SsIKWJhvW9ogRxKY3Il-FzngD_gq7CUppsS_MKtJ0nElq7kChW21QkU6Ls5jdMO0QykP5PBzb0s4l6oObm9LrbI0EJxa07vK8=w640-h228" width="640" /></a><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Figure 14. Showing the north side of False Creek Flats in 1912 (City of Vancouver Archives Fire Insurance Maps detail of plates 71 and 72 342b.07 and 342b.08)</span></span></div><p>You will note that a large piece of land had been created from dumping for only 3 years at the end of Gore Avenue. That dump was a nuisance to those living in this eastern portion of Vancouver. For a time, all manner of garbage was dumped here, but “some time” before June of 1911, only ashes and earth were supposed to be allowed. Manure, however, was still being dumped and caused a great stench and possibly health risk from Typhoid (<a href="https://www.newspapers.com/image/490151774/?terms=Garbage%20dump%20Typhoid&match=1" target="_blank">Vancouver Sun June 24, 1913 p.3</a>; Keeling 2004:69; <a href="https://www.newspapers.com/image/498303565/?terms=Dump&match=1" target="_blank">The Province, January 19, 1912 p.38</a>). </p><p>It is possible that our area was used to dump materials occasionally before 1909, but after the buildings were demolished ca. 1912, the city would have encouraged the dumping of materials here to help fill it. The Gore Avenue dump may also have been pushed into the St. Paul's location as filling happened 1913-1914. I do have it on good authority that the area along the north shoreline has been previously dug by collectors, so some of the more interesting bottles are likely missing in our collection (Bill Wilson pers. comm. 2021).</p><p>As a last mention, there was also a garbage dump toward the east end of the flats – likely created when the Gore Avenue dump was filled in. This garbage was still being used in 1941 (Vancouver Sun September 17, 1941 p.17). This dump was known to the bottle collectors as the "stopper dump" due to the many internal thread stoppers that were found there (Bill Wilson pers. comm. 2021). I was fortunate enough to find this map that shows that dump in 1927.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjLRsA5UmePa9DLE0i4-GzidNWGp2KVUjQtnvhjI8BIrTsBW1VF-weM3q43qooDYU_HeozEMMjWsX5iy2hgYuXc8VqCEvCttxz3L42T_VjQpa1Fkw8BMfVibStByHGI957FQP6CrVGLYziMTL1FqXjADNQZX2QmzSBPICnuxZPI4sdr7UZn0BzOKLnO=s1794" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1794" data-original-width="1560" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjLRsA5UmePa9DLE0i4-GzidNWGp2KVUjQtnvhjI8BIrTsBW1VF-weM3q43qooDYU_HeozEMMjWsX5iy2hgYuXc8VqCEvCttxz3L42T_VjQpa1Fkw8BMfVibStByHGI957FQP6CrVGLYziMTL1FqXjADNQZX2QmzSBPICnuxZPI4sdr7UZn0BzOKLnO=w556-h640" width="556" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhhKZM82B7ISwqS2nLzJ4WLhjKYqHOQXmTAh6jMa60hqPUm592U7pyX4Yi86-VUdj_QSecxWyEULfvlxvmJgslWs5w7O-RMfZPPlDnoTJEgjJWx5pc5Nymv0BSldJXI5kGmsuqpKkKA_QbE4AVXzf0K7NTM-2_svSnfIr1TEL-jhoQA5cdGuH_j-Gha=s2048" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1364" data-original-width="2048" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhhKZM82B7ISwqS2nLzJ4WLhjKYqHOQXmTAh6jMa60hqPUm592U7pyX4Yi86-VUdj_QSecxWyEULfvlxvmJgslWs5w7O-RMfZPPlDnoTJEgjJWx5pc5Nymv0BSldJXI5kGmsuqpKkKA_QbE4AVXzf0K7NTM-2_svSnfIr1TEL-jhoQA5cdGuH_j-Gha=s320" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Figure 15. Detail of 1927 map showing dump still within the high water line at the east end of False Creek Flats just off Raymur Avenue (Raymur Avenue trunk sewer diverting map CVA </span><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">MAP761.02)</span></span></div><br /><p>One other thing that I just found out - After the land was filled in for the railway, the famous Hogan's Alley (an African-American neighbourhood in Vancouver) started to form less than a block away from the St. Paul's property. An indication that this land continued to be inexpensive and allocated for marginalized ethnic groups.</p><p>If you would like information on any of the references noted here, please contact me directly.</p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2886737049184020992.post-23701356705190392842021-12-02T13:43:00.029-07:002022-09-30T10:39:15.699-06:00Characteristics of Semi-Automatic Machine-Made Bottles<p>Newly discovered characteristics of some semi-automatic machine-made bottles.</p><p>For decades, I have read that there is "no way to tell whether a bottle was produced on a semiautomatic or fully automatic machine, aside from the Owens scar" (SHA bottle research website <a href="https://sha.org/bottle/pdffiles/OwensBottleCoPart1.pdf" target="_blank">Owens Company Part 1</a> p.174 summarizing <a href="https://sha.org/bottle/pdffiles/GlassGlossary.pdf" target="_blank">Jones and Sullivan 1989</a>). With the utmost respect to my predecessors, this is not entirely true. But let me be clear, the characteristics presented here don't cover them all, I'm sure. There were lots.</p><p>As mentioned in a <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/2886737049184020992/7541350503648999461" target="_blank">previous post</a>, I am working on a collection of bottles from Vancouver, BC, that are tightly dated from ca. 1905 to ca.1913-16. Within this collection I have examples of mould blown, semi-automatic, and fully automatic machine-made bottles. And sometimes you CAN tell the difference. The Ashley machine is pretty straight-forward and it seems most other British semi-automatics followed their basic structure.</p><p>The first semi-automatic machine that commercially produced a container with a narrow mouth was patented in England in 1886: the Ashley Machine by Howard M. Ashley. The machine was again patented in the United States in 1889 and 1890 under patent numbers US416149A and US433062 (seen below). </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhHENH_USDzaaD6P8-iCO1IZ32zVgWpxZ_wQdpzGEuKO6J1OVoD5Ox3qyArncs4EmyNTZhih0WYHWTswx3tcFqmcWTWfuIp7ZtlzrJ-EdyXEQ2gcFw0CRHQavP4JaBDZVVspLwZej35PGPp4fooTU25FnvIp_tnzfhm3TkAVQp4Yw8VmuorEbpY2YYm" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1742" data-original-width="1112" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhHENH_USDzaaD6P8-iCO1IZ32zVgWpxZ_wQdpzGEuKO6J1OVoD5Ox3qyArncs4EmyNTZhih0WYHWTswx3tcFqmcWTWfuIp7ZtlzrJ-EdyXEQ2gcFw0CRHQavP4JaBDZVVspLwZej35PGPp4fooTU25FnvIp_tnzfhm3TkAVQp4Yw8VmuorEbpY2YYm=w255-h400" width="255" /></a></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhi-X30EzOuA9DC5l4RmmiS-h8cVid4lfy-V8iTyUzM3Etlj2soYEzvovrvGt5p3g029A2lknUNsvt1NOc2o88JNRU5Ea6mmJH9_RVcuaeTmaEXzTXQYhEWmmoO9VR9CXgaXn_UflGAurk/s1654/Ashley+Patent+p2.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1170" data-original-width="1654" height="283" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhi-X30EzOuA9DC5l4RmmiS-h8cVid4lfy-V8iTyUzM3Etlj2soYEzvovrvGt5p3g029A2lknUNsvt1NOc2o88JNRU5Ea6mmJH9_RVcuaeTmaEXzTXQYhEWmmoO9VR9CXgaXn_UflGAurk/w400-h283/Ashley+Patent+p2.png" width="400" /></a></div><p>The Ashley was a blow- and blow-machine, with the initial cavity in the parison being air blown by the machines. This particular bottle-making machine was the first to successfully create the finish (mouth and lip) of a narrow-mouthed bottle as part of the parison before moving it (with finish still in its mould) to the final mould to blow the rest of the bottle. </p><p>The finish and neck were created in combined inverted moulds with an open top where the base of the bottle would be. A puff of air would be blown into the parison (or glob of glass initially gathered for a bottle) from below to create a holllow for further air to be blown (Fig 1). The mould rotated to the upright position and the parison mould would be removed while the finish and neck mould remained. So you had the neck and finish in their mould with a parison hanging down from it - and that would go to the final mould (Fig. 3) where the bottle shape would be finalized (Fig. 4).</p><p>The result from that action meant that you would get a bottle with mould seams up and over the lip of the bottle (like any machine made bottle), with ghost seams going part way down the bottle, but you don't get ghost seams coming up from the base or the Owens scar. Here you can see ghost seams coming down from the finish:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjbBVWinxfpvihAOgPCUEz6EX9HgYJ4mw2H8Z0Cylmevf2OR3NJ_NqgA9vamDXriEFca4nKsBq95Br0oeum-27734Lp-vSXoVHy3-2OKFdOGhVh5KxHMvkH8pUJ-b63DmnlqGtGINZYC5AlPaxCCgVU6YfLhxGgjZgcuP3kN8yc9fAspUrXT0JeKXTZ=s1800" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1800" data-original-width="1418" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjbBVWinxfpvihAOgPCUEz6EX9HgYJ4mw2H8Z0Cylmevf2OR3NJ_NqgA9vamDXriEFca4nKsBq95Br0oeum-27734Lp-vSXoVHy3-2OKFdOGhVh5KxHMvkH8pUJ-b63DmnlqGtGINZYC5AlPaxCCgVU6YfLhxGgjZgcuP3kN8yc9fAspUrXT0JeKXTZ=s320" width="252" /></a> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhN4LGpfgljG_0gHJ40HwzkZ7FWIKtCN-dLZpRSip0SaA5HzrijHe7R1NN44WiM1Hq8iqLFKuRGDm1jxeKG_We3_5sjZ3gqRhknMXS_RytFc9yPDSxl2VJq4UuP4p1V98-MwK1um72zEvpl7KHteduDXfaSMhaPAytmUiEFDQVz2laPphc8Wml6dDi9=s4032" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhN4LGpfgljG_0gHJ40HwzkZ7FWIKtCN-dLZpRSip0SaA5HzrijHe7R1NN44WiM1Hq8iqLFKuRGDm1jxeKG_We3_5sjZ3gqRhknMXS_RytFc9yPDSxl2VJq4UuP4p1V98-MwK1um72zEvpl7KHteduDXfaSMhaPAytmUiEFDQVz2laPphc8Wml6dDi9=s320" width="240" /></a><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Ashley machine ghost seams running down from finish (look <a href="https://snratch.wixsite.com/portfolio/ashley-bottle-video-clip" target="_blank">here</a> for video showing it more clearly)</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><p>I've also noticed on some of these bottles that of the two seams just under the finish one is very fine, the other is more bulky as in the photo below and the first photo above. Also note that there is a flaw on the bottom of the string rim that seems to be associated with this larger seam mark below. Haven't quite figured out the mechanics of this yet, but it might have something to do with the type of machine - possibly using a finish/parison mould, then a body mould, and a final finish/neck mould. The bulky mark lines up with the body mould seams.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiyRWsmm8ygXa-j_0vlIc3jBIVmZHTvEoTN7z5mvvcxRMI96PSunb1Jmxeukem0x-ZCm8jwS1UkN3kSkkZ1knoGN5ayS1JAUcnUNk3fyOj6vRCq-k6bUxJjgLH_T1ZQ69WJlZOOOThfrSZ4KZzf6iU1aOVM-ffRV5VA6CMaJ_ffZfWcVLAoyiwNd2CL=s2731" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2633" data-original-width="2731" height="309" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiyRWsmm8ygXa-j_0vlIc3jBIVmZHTvEoTN7z5mvvcxRMI96PSunb1Jmxeukem0x-ZCm8jwS1UkN3kSkkZ1knoGN5ayS1JAUcnUNk3fyOj6vRCq-k6bUxJjgLH_T1ZQ69WJlZOOOThfrSZ4KZzf6iU1aOVM-ffRV5VA6CMaJ_ffZfWcVLAoyiwNd2CL=s320" width="320" /></a></div><div><br /></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Here are other examples of truncated ghost seams coming down from the top:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh4vyPdU36aGGp0fzD8jwUBMvahi7X-OdUZrLO9fhwz6WORP8bEaj1mC1ky2L3I7mcn8g_r4SuoReTKUpDW9FoNTXQqNDxC-tpacfTk_9ldaO3O0kZmH1Vdo1t9PUzPMa_xH40mdNiARSKWKWI10RPEayrHLtlMtaPBHr0HjJc3TFr6OO5lHefs6c6E=s4032" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh4vyPdU36aGGp0fzD8jwUBMvahi7X-OdUZrLO9fhwz6WORP8bEaj1mC1ky2L3I7mcn8g_r4SuoReTKUpDW9FoNTXQqNDxC-tpacfTk_9ldaO3O0kZmH1Vdo1t9PUzPMa_xH40mdNiARSKWKWI10RPEayrHLtlMtaPBHr0HjJc3TFr6OO5lHefs6c6E=w240-h320" width="240" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">#248</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiwcxGk1b87kuAluCqa4T3Hi04BkkqCsx7bK5ldiGcJArP8u2cwlWWAh2ZBwmn8-64lG4jd-2_Autek9im3eF8dumj4sGbVWSsPjtS9cLbqmo9Lse0yOX1O5M13We0aZtwxTgxBeqrq_EdQdJWXgcEDbImkm_nGAocjPVeepSD2HoAO0_83djDiaPOu=s4032" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiwcxGk1b87kuAluCqa4T3Hi04BkkqCsx7bK5ldiGcJArP8u2cwlWWAh2ZBwmn8-64lG4jd-2_Autek9im3eF8dumj4sGbVWSsPjtS9cLbqmo9Lse0yOX1O5M13We0aZtwxTgxBeqrq_EdQdJWXgcEDbImkm_nGAocjPVeepSD2HoAO0_83djDiaPOu=w240-h320" width="240" /></a> <br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg7UQeeW3mBi3DuLDA4kGJT8gAnnuLJ8GLeAQJQfD7cMUMOsUKPjBqxz5NKOrjGOL0bAOBGU2BhfO0MA-pv21m3YqSHMkft4ZiovoiUT-jr-CfYSwzeJHAHK49YsLbeYX_8kqgG51NVlKp4wMQVEVr_2ctnGq3_7hmelXXcqu24gsIVrdVvQnFQy2t9=s4032" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg7UQeeW3mBi3DuLDA4kGJT8gAnnuLJ8GLeAQJQfD7cMUMOsUKPjBqxz5NKOrjGOL0bAOBGU2BhfO0MA-pv21m3YqSHMkft4ZiovoiUT-jr-CfYSwzeJHAHK49YsLbeYX_8kqgG51NVlKp4wMQVEVr_2ctnGq3_7hmelXXcqu24gsIVrdVvQnFQy2t9=s320" width="240" /></a></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dwq_QzTSteystrlG8kxhehBiQ2Lqym9r4TEL9xjnsBRz8I0vYZdTmSJN8W_hQQR5cxnk88hN17OwkzZyGl-7w' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">An Owens machine will always have the ghost seams coming up right from the base and usually truncating before the shoulder (but definitely before the finish), as well as having an Owens scar on the base:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEis1HQg0vIFbWDyDRBNVAb-dZzL9Sr6FkbB9a_xdtt-aAJxkkrnPWKvMltYb7GSHYuEpD8pb3z8tvNM8NphlRhrygNxtaJFLy7XDa8CJYJNaEZB4tx6IH8XgruHQaQL5xHIGXvHLUAe3MY/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="310" data-original-width="356" height="348" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEis1HQg0vIFbWDyDRBNVAb-dZzL9Sr6FkbB9a_xdtt-aAJxkkrnPWKvMltYb7GSHYuEpD8pb3z8tvNM8NphlRhrygNxtaJFLy7XDa8CJYJNaEZB4tx6IH8XgruHQaQL5xHIGXvHLUAe3MY/w400-h348/image.png" width="400" /></a> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Owen's machine ghost seams running up from base, final seams running from base up the bottle and over the finish or lip (the "texture" in the seams comes from the lighting). </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhSQmyIezYTPdEvEEYWOFu12Xm-t6suukGccDlqbNDYOvMayA6RqAuYIoQmAEvTqf0_jhOWF4QlphJZIbP3U0XPEuhOJ2Omw1xur-X1nURmEBuJ_8ERRYYFIRY6Nm0vCBNEODYHWdCUXfJs5bdDn4XltJ9ANxL_amWAngavimnDG_zRbSElXqGiI2O5=s2362" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2362" data-original-width="2328" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhSQmyIezYTPdEvEEYWOFu12Xm-t6suukGccDlqbNDYOvMayA6RqAuYIoQmAEvTqf0_jhOWF4QlphJZIbP3U0XPEuhOJ2Omw1xur-X1nURmEBuJ_8ERRYYFIRY6Nm0vCBNEODYHWdCUXfJs5bdDn4XltJ9ANxL_amWAngavimnDG_zRbSElXqGiI2O5=w393-h400" width="393" /></a></div><span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Base showing typical Owens scar - the photo is not reversed, the "2" is.</span></div></span><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;">Ghost seams are one way to tell that a bottle has been made in two moulds. They are only seen on machine made bottles as mouth blown bottles were made in a single mould. Be careful, though, because a seam on a mouth-blown bottle can truncate before the lip - but the finish will be hand applied with no seams running under, over or up it. (this paragraph will not be "left-aligned" - it refuses)</span></div><p>See also the photos of the <a href="https://sandiratch.blogspot.com/2021/12/walkers-kilmarnock-whisky-and-john-lumb.html" target="_blank">Kilmarnock Whisky </a>bottle.</p><p>This Perrier bottle shows the finish mould seams being 90 degrees offset from the body seams. It does seem to have a valve or ejection scar on the base. There is also a circular scar just at the mouth of the bottle. So far, I have not figured out which machine this would have made this bottle, but it is clearly not a fully automated machine bottle. It had a finish mould separate from the body mould, and in the process, the parison only rotated 90 degrees to get to the final body mould. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBwfvnmXdl3zznjOkrBVcD5VUc9aomyMGoAzzyct686YV3KVBcTM-MAYbln_YrHbeLJwUVQhDyP6f8k3gCCR7Vac6wcgu18V8iA6jqZVMhoNyOO7g5jTWgnSTSDqmqDnnMsPuh2QVx3Yyn9kArVP-Y6227OXfePT70KlCbv58leES8w1ElVuGJVdug/s3302/22-013%20IMG_8590%20crop%20colour.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3302" data-original-width="2065" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBwfvnmXdl3zznjOkrBVcD5VUc9aomyMGoAzzyct686YV3KVBcTM-MAYbln_YrHbeLJwUVQhDyP6f8k3gCCR7Vac6wcgu18V8iA6jqZVMhoNyOO7g5jTWgnSTSDqmqDnnMsPuh2QVx3Yyn9kArVP-Y6227OXfePT70KlCbv58leES8w1ElVuGJVdug/s320/22-013%20IMG_8590%20crop%20colour.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Perrier bottle showing vertical finish seam 90 degrees offset from body seams</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlVqFRzarc54eG6KgFi3SR7-eK-AELXCSfhSJ0KRhydsho-J79pQGnO5meM03K-Szpchj4dcLQflB4_-0P7d1ilPaJDQd_pMR_7bV_aa3Ql17PjcrdM39MmWmdJCZM1zcBPCTfXQAaptbX2OwCg4qlHgmYZ2FWzxFmbvhit0bYX0_OkJ5-np7gBzdQ/s752/22-013%20composite.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="752" data-original-width="668" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlVqFRzarc54eG6KgFi3SR7-eK-AELXCSfhSJ0KRhydsho-J79pQGnO5meM03K-Szpchj4dcLQflB4_-0P7d1ilPaJDQd_pMR_7bV_aa3Ql17PjcrdM39MmWmdJCZM1zcBPCTfXQAaptbX2OwCg4qlHgmYZ2FWzxFmbvhit0bYX0_OkJ5-np7gBzdQ/s320/22-013%20composite.png" width="284" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Perrier bottle showing base with ejection/valve mark</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjryIrQ8LhjUUvj7vvJW1c_tYJ8YOJtz6tGNTya7ZPldeGtdBpkH4rWO5zokNU3A_ByKmfm2cHlFj0n0hMjTVwT4wbWr77Ol_V26k9dId9YVoLPct_9lHO8KyRw5aXmQUSoMMillsQXi7RdH8H3fCxU_5aU6Ub_7kOzdUu8n6R9tUHtEW6zpJWpYrfs/s600/22-013%20IMG_8591%20crop%20colour%20size.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="344" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjryIrQ8LhjUUvj7vvJW1c_tYJ8YOJtz6tGNTya7ZPldeGtdBpkH4rWO5zokNU3A_ByKmfm2cHlFj0n0hMjTVwT4wbWr77Ol_V26k9dId9YVoLPct_9lHO8KyRw5aXmQUSoMMillsQXi7RdH8H3fCxU_5aU6Ub_7kOzdUu8n6R9tUHtEW6zpJWpYrfs/s320/22-013%20IMG_8591%20crop%20colour%20size.jpg" width="183" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Perrier bottle showing the cup bottom mould and seams going up the side of the bottle - no ghost seams.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRShTUzRle94t1WFn8uLGYpcMeuVAV1e9PwoBcOYfhv4ImPxEnXLzvYdmOhXGWGV94onYlmpKkopHh4-5_i5_WyAhua1ZZVGVSsKkOoJO_zrfBlPbx3ZgpApQudSpwIZoMqDBwGjSkZaVOw4sz1-xD5NL1grZWyd99D2VvM6kGaJiRGR_AqmLpFFHA/s488/22-013%20IMG_8448%20crop%20colour%20size.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="488" height="295" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRShTUzRle94t1WFn8uLGYpcMeuVAV1e9PwoBcOYfhv4ImPxEnXLzvYdmOhXGWGV94onYlmpKkopHh4-5_i5_WyAhua1ZZVGVSsKkOoJO_zrfBlPbx3ZgpApQudSpwIZoMqDBwGjSkZaVOw4sz1-xD5NL1grZWyd99D2VvM6kGaJiRGR_AqmLpFFHA/s320/22-013%20IMG_8448%20crop%20colour%20size.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Circular impression/scar just at the mouth of the bottle.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p>The Ashley Machine was the fore-runner of many other semi-automatic bottle making machines in Europe and America. The Ashley Bottle Machine Company failed due to bad management shortly after it was formed, and Bagley & Co. of Knottingley, and Cannington and Shaw of St. Helens bought out the machines of the Ashley Bottle Company (English 1923:334).</p><p>In the United States, the Ashley machine (or "Johnny Bull") was utilized first by the Glenshaw Glass Co. of Glenshaw, Pennsylvania in the 1907-1908 season (<a href="https://sha.org/bottle/pdffiles/AshleyMachines.pdf">https://sha.org/bottle/pdffiles/AshleyMachines.pdf</a>). Glenshaw made catsup, beer, and brandy bottles as well as flasks. In the collection from Vancouver, BC, I have the body and base of an amber-coloured bottle. This bottle has the thick glass indicative of a carbonated beverage bottle (5 mm), and the evidence of having been made in a semi-automatic machine. It is also marked on the base with "435" and "G" (although a little garbled) - I suspect this is an American beer bottle and that it may have been made on a Johnny Bull machine by Glenshaw. The "G" has been attributed to Glenshaw (1895-2004) by <a href="http://glassbottlemarks.com">glassbottlemarks.com</a>.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiK42V0RnXyLpTWt6WeRG4UAp6WkqDqS35Mmlu8vVA0P_twlTdnBo6NpYNbHuLpHcLETdLYRhPFzm9cqxQ8_L9h4xo7H5_GzFWVLQOgsz-Pbd4qIdPFe0fka3SG6S8vwqSEcrACBuXKW35iuVQs5vJ12lsV3QrPjd51nTtg674uJ-zH5hUXc0P6ESZC=s4032" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiK42V0RnXyLpTWt6WeRG4UAp6WkqDqS35Mmlu8vVA0P_twlTdnBo6NpYNbHuLpHcLETdLYRhPFzm9cqxQ8_L9h4xo7H5_GzFWVLQOgsz-Pbd4qIdPFe0fka3SG6S8vwqSEcrACBuXKW35iuVQs5vJ12lsV3QrPjd51nTtg674uJ-zH5hUXc0P6ESZC=s320" width="240" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">#248 - see also image above</span></div><p>Many other companies created their own semi-automatic machines for making small-necked containers. Some of the names I have come across are:</p><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><b>John Lumb & Co</b>. of Castleford, Yorkshire, England created The <b>Simpson Bradshaw Machine</b> in 1901 (<a href="https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=8EHOAAAAMAAJ&pg=GBS.RA1-PA1258-IA1&hl=en_CA">https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=8EHOAAAAMAAJ&pg=GBS.RA1-PA1258-IA1&hl=en_CA</a> p.1259 section VII). By 1913 they had 38 of them and were working on making them all fully automatic (Morgan 2021:128). Not only did they produce bottles for Read Brothers in London, they also started making Johnnie Walker bottles in the early 20th century and continued with them for many years. In 1903, the Simpson patent number US732,902A clearly states that the parison mould is inverted and has a separate finish mould. <a href="https://patents.google.com/patent/US732902A/en?oq=US732902A">https://patents.google.com/patent/US732902A/en?oq=US732902A</a> </li></ul><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgI793EG7YEf6LjJk0_ueYZSAXKsEyRyzUZyYu04HsTAliPbMY_Qs671JgpeExx3-Z0bFhTg208shIXdeqT74hlvliqNI2cBecIUQIvcIpwb0Y5quCpFLWyl79r9lUucOBjkcnAA2DBz_F_1YE5oAMpQOrhzmO1nSrF5OmI3EQKw483oan97CgkJOVC=s1668" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1668" data-original-width="938" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgI793EG7YEf6LjJk0_ueYZSAXKsEyRyzUZyYu04HsTAliPbMY_Qs671JgpeExx3-Z0bFhTg208shIXdeqT74hlvliqNI2cBecIUQIvcIpwb0Y5quCpFLWyl79r9lUucOBjkcnAA2DBz_F_1YE5oAMpQOrhzmO1nSrF5OmI3EQKw483oan97CgkJOVC=w360-h640" width="360" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Simpson-Bradshaw Patent 1903 - 8 is the inverted parison mould (closed), 40 is the final mould (open).</span></div><div><br /></div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><b>Forsters</b> of St. Helens, Merseyside, England made a semi-automatic machine with their own company's name - modified from the <b>Boucher Machine</b> (<a href="https://www.arts-et-metiers.net/sites/arts-et-metiers/files/2021-10/field_media_document-385-cp_machine_boucher.pdf">https://www.arts-et-metiers.net/sites/arts-et-metiers/files/2021-10/field_media_document-385-cp_machine_boucher.pdf</a>) from France (Turner 1938:255).</li><li>The <b>Boucher Machine</b> was patented in 1899 in the US and had specifications for making wine bottles with a kick-up:<a href="https://patents.google.com/patent/US665055A/en?oq=US665055A" target="_blank"> https://patents.google.com/patent/US665055A/en?oq=US665055A</a> </li><li>The <b>Horne Machine</b> became popular in Yorkshire and Lancashire in England and were also supplied to France, Germany and the United States (Turner 1938:254).</li><li>The <b>Red Devil</b> was developed by The Root Glass Co. of Terre Haute, Indiana (most famous for developing the Coca-Cola "hobble skirt" bottle) - and it was apparently based on the Ashley.</li><li>The earliest <b>O'Neill</b> machine was a press machine<a href="https://patents.google.com/patent/US616251A/en?oq=US616251A" target="_blank"> patented in 1898</a> - had an ejection pin and would create ejection marks.</li><li>The<b> </b>next<b> O'Neill</b> machine was patented in the U.S. in 1911 (<a href="https://sha.org/bottle/pdffiles/ONeillmachines.pdf" target="_blank">source</a>) - it had a suction valve that would attach to the bottom of the parison to stretch it out. That patent and the <a href="https://patents.google.com/patent/US1217102A/en?oq=US1217102A" target="_blank">1917 patent </a>clearly show the parison mould being inverted and then the final mould being upright. Also had valve for extending the parison creating valve mark.</li></ul><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhltec6GIuGNaDoJ7_yRIjdfihuMm4vG6iTTYkZ7982tDBDoDJYfw8oFz_hF97Fl3Q2vLVz5lYa5kZ2zZd6ab05pf12-vXmb85ZAyJ2s2-O6X1lM5vAbT_dSTmvuMsAoI0ayBeBKAZsQmGO74tFXFOmFHcq3ZpLPOHC4uGGWTz3V4rK8ZHh3p4IK2GI=s715" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="715" data-original-width="445" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhltec6GIuGNaDoJ7_yRIjdfihuMm4vG6iTTYkZ7982tDBDoDJYfw8oFz_hF97Fl3Q2vLVz5lYa5kZ2zZd6ab05pf12-vXmb85ZAyJ2s2-O6X1lM5vAbT_dSTmvuMsAoI0ayBeBKAZsQmGO74tFXFOmFHcq3ZpLPOHC4uGGWTz3V4rK8ZHh3p4IK2GI=w398-h640" width="398" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">1911 O'Neill patent US994,421 Fig. 6 shows the initial inverted stage of the parison mould (#9 in figure). That entire mechanism would rotate 180 degrees. Fig. 7 shows the parison mould in upright position and ready to be put into the final bottle mould.</span></div><br /><div><a href="https://patents.google.com/patent/US567236A/en?oq=US567236" target="_blank">The Hilde</a> (1891) - shows inverted parison. Rod "M" support the base of the mould or base-former.</div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEij-kvL4NJ4pw0OipTDhyKY1zHeMha7PJskKD0Stu3TwXGA1Z7d0Ja1aHfHCJF7QgdLRYF-ERK5yrPRGBuEDjdupvQ8Aq_sxmMDI4i8xV9O0bxSMQqMlAiRcOg0a2-rsFo-HJofx6L_MO4Jx-pupbBRlip9-sLJ-rWWLzGeAcBI7Nbh1JIujoAN2385" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1756" data-original-width="1104" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEij-kvL4NJ4pw0OipTDhyKY1zHeMha7PJskKD0Stu3TwXGA1Z7d0Ja1aHfHCJF7QgdLRYF-ERK5yrPRGBuEDjdupvQ8Aq_sxmMDI4i8xV9O0bxSMQqMlAiRcOg0a2-rsFo-HJofx6L_MO4Jx-pupbBRlip9-sLJ-rWWLzGeAcBI7Nbh1JIujoAN2385=w403-h640" width="403" /></a></div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://patents.google.com/patent/US757356A/en?oq=US757356" target="_blank">The Severin</a> (1902)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjmKKsgZdyK39EYxan5hGSEkvkep21mzCFncgN6Fm6oLuygtf5rzAirRFRdmL7vfyvG_vdg0BRIQNA5KfyXblQcZfMeBDxLZhDj6aiKaltYV3c8uxdJbfgEolQW9uQ1iMWMlTDqKVMffkwOAkLY0taZxFAty0fY2KKoN0Q_nAlLZnYfAfF1v7LnBpbl" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1828" data-original-width="1098" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjmKKsgZdyK39EYxan5hGSEkvkep21mzCFncgN6Fm6oLuygtf5rzAirRFRdmL7vfyvG_vdg0BRIQNA5KfyXblQcZfMeBDxLZhDj6aiKaltYV3c8uxdJbfgEolQW9uQ1iMWMlTDqKVMffkwOAkLY0taZxFAty0fY2KKoN0Q_nAlLZnYfAfF1v7LnBpbl=w384-h640" width="384" /></a></div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>The Schiller machine (1904) Patent DE157520<br /></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjz6Gs73VycbECAu7na-rf4q66kIhHdyzD8_e8n-NftTVYLl2pxN9tbMxolFycK309OgUL96lu6D3qHKwWPv2cRko0mCpAL2Ir5ZDMQu55YKLrR3dn1X9IN8t4LMwJbq4p4ZRZ3MrQgXSXCPZnwWQWFuE_Sd7-62_COxUkN57vBG8UmsyP7AJ5bBnYY=s2710" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2710" data-original-width="2639" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjz6Gs73VycbECAu7na-rf4q66kIhHdyzD8_e8n-NftTVYLl2pxN9tbMxolFycK309OgUL96lu6D3qHKwWPv2cRko0mCpAL2Ir5ZDMQu55YKLrR3dn1X9IN8t4LMwJbq4p4ZRZ3MrQgXSXCPZnwWQWFuE_Sd7-62_COxUkN57vBG8UmsyP7AJ5bBnYY=w624-h640" width="624" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">From Giegerich and Trier p.130</div><br /><div><br /></div><p><b>References:</b></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">English, S.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">1923<span style="white-space: pre;"> "</span>The Ashley Bottle Machine. A Historical Note." <i>Journal of the Society of Glass Technology</i> v.7 T323-334.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Jones, Olive and Catherine Sullivan with G. L. Miller, E. A. Smith, J. E. Harris, and K. Lunn</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">1989<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The Parks Canada Glass Glossary for the description of containers, tableware, flat glass, and closures. Studies in Archaeology Architecture and History, National Historic Parks and Sites Canadian Parks Service, Environment Canada. Now available online at: <a href="https://sha.org/assets/documents/The%20Parks%20Canada%20Glass%20Glossary.pdf " target="_blank">Parks Canada Glass Glossary</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div>Lockhart, Bill, Pete Schulz, Russell Hoenig, Phil Perry, Carol Serr, and Bill Lindsey</div><div>2018<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>“The Owens Bottle Co. Part 1 – History” Society for Historical Archaeology Bottle website: <a href="https://sha.org/bottle/pdffiles/OwensBottleCoPart1.pdf " target="_blank">https://sha.org/bottle/pdffiles/OwensBottleCoPart1.pdf </a></div><div><br /></div><div>Giegerich, W, and W. Trier (eds)</div><div>1969 <i>Glass Machines: Construction and Operation of Machines for the Forming of Hot Glass</i>. Springer-Verlag New York.</div><div><br /></div><div>Morgan, Nicholas</div><div>2020<span> A Long Stride: The Story of the World's No. 1 Scotch Whisky. Canongate Books, Edinburgh, Scotland.</span></div><div><br /></div><div><div>Turner, W.E.S.</div><div>1938<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>“The Early Development of Bottle Making Machines in Europe”. <i>Journal of the Society of Glass Technology</i>. 22:250-58</div></div><div><br /></div></div></div></div></div><p></p><p><br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><br /><br /><p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2886737049184020992.post-75413505036489994612021-12-02T12:56:00.008-07:002022-03-27T15:21:04.482-06:00Bottle Colour and What it Might Tell Us<p>I've started working on a new project. I have a collection of bottles from an archaeological context in Vancouver. A number of them are, I believe, some of the very first fully automatic machine-made bottles from Europe. They are providing me with some very interesting data and I'm going to share some of my preliminary findings with you here. This study is part of an <a href="https://arrowstonearchaeology.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">Arrowstone Archaeological Research and Consulting Ltd</a> project, and is being conducted by myself, <a href="https://snratch.wixsite.com/portfolio" target="_blank">Sandi Ratch</a>.</p><p>Here is the first post I'm going to share - some background and some colour:</p><p><b><span style="font-size: medium;">The Earliest Owen’s Machine-Made Bottles in Europe</span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><p style="text-align: left;"><b>1907-1914: Seven Years That Changed the Face of the European Bottle-Making Industry</b></p><p style="text-align: left;">Sandi Ratch</p><p style="text-align: left;">An archaeological collection of hundreds of bottles from a dump site in Vancouver’s False Creek Flats has offered a unique opportunity to study some of the earliest <a href="https://sha.org/bottle/pdffiles/OwensBottleCoPart1.pdf" target="_blank">Owens Machine</a>-made bottles from Europe (check out the link for a good history of the Owens company). Most of the archaeological research on Owens bottles has been limited to the United States, the chronology of European-made Owens bottles is less understood. Through this research, it has become clear that most of the pre-WWI Owens bottles from Europe came from Germany - even those that were filled in Britain and exported to the Colonies (Meigh 1971?:7). I have also found that the history of the early Owens machines in Europe has a fairly tight timeline with some specific dates that can be useful in dating sites.</p><p style="text-align: left;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVcdgabtibkXhphB7DOs-HwH5xg75oOwlhLKLoOxsr9lRm-z0_vtEd7jIjqBq-zmx9d2S57GJTzdIJpHrLnsTPmnpONZtTLJ3RhdhrXDAdmrJdM5tkz1cvRlsask0STAmKYWXMuoTHedg/s2585/80+IMG_5747.jpeg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2585" data-original-width="755" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVcdgabtibkXhphB7DOs-HwH5xg75oOwlhLKLoOxsr9lRm-z0_vtEd7jIjqBq-zmx9d2S57GJTzdIJpHrLnsTPmnpONZtTLJ3RhdhrXDAdmrJdM5tkz1cvRlsask0STAmKYWXMuoTHedg/s320/80+IMG_5747.jpeg" width="93" /></a></div><p style="text-align: left;"><b>COLOUR</b></p><p style="text-align: left;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: left;">Recently, I discovered that prior to World War I, all beer bottles in England were made of green glass (wait until I publish it to get the reference). From this information and from the collection I have, I here theorize that there was a distinct colour difference between alcoholic beverage bottles (and maybe all low colour bottles) made in Europe (filled in England) and those made in the U.S. prior to WWI. In this collection, alcohol bottles identified as being made or filled in Britain are all yellow-based green – anywhere from the very dark “black glass” to the very pale green glass like Walkers Whisky or Gordon’s London Dry Gin. Even olive-coloured green glass is included here. Whereas bottles from the United States tend toward red based amber, pale blue (early beer bottles), or maybe blue-based green (emerald) - although I don't have proof of this last one ... yet.</p><p style="text-align: left;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: left;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: left;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: left;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: left;">THE DIFFERENCE IN "LOW COLOUR" BOTTLES, or the bottles that were made to be as clear as possible, but did not have manganese or other chemicals added to eliminate all colour. These trends are very loose and I wouldn't use them to try and identify place of manufacture at this time.</p><p style="text-align: left;">American bottles tend toward blue tints in their low colour bottles.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQGV8D_LCDyGrsrHd4eJMQdrguH75yvQmewsszV7OojuSMZVNXb1BwSN5IOnO8f8bdUHIVc2kFKssQ0ErZ2x95ybbOa9BYndGFpNYGJFTdCXIEzy7ZFfNh36C2c6flYaTasjhAbw9F8wM/s2048/IMG_5917.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1583" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQGV8D_LCDyGrsrHd4eJMQdrguH75yvQmewsszV7OojuSMZVNXb1BwSN5IOnO8f8bdUHIVc2kFKssQ0ErZ2x95ybbOa9BYndGFpNYGJFTdCXIEzy7ZFfNh36C2c6flYaTasjhAbw9F8wM/s320/IMG_5917.jpeg" width="247" /></a></div><p style="text-align: left;">While British or European low colour bottles tend toward green.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifrHOh-Ji09pwR0nUR4y3QE6dLcH6p7L3eo3hyeJvPN3buabjn9LTgGEFMf54ELyiSBGbJQvYaGzYNlBLTITT4ENz68EWw3Xue4_PsSrr-OgF6ABvnnjkCI8Yb2MNdlFujp0OAFP8MXwI/s2048/38+IMG_6229.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifrHOh-Ji09pwR0nUR4y3QE6dLcH6p7L3eo3hyeJvPN3buabjn9LTgGEFMf54ELyiSBGbJQvYaGzYNlBLTITT4ENz68EWw3Xue4_PsSrr-OgF6ABvnnjkCI8Yb2MNdlFujp0OAFP8MXwI/s320/38+IMG_6229.jpeg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><p style="text-align: left;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: left;">BEER BOTTLES:</p><p style="text-align: left;">These trends a very solid for early 20th century bottles. American beer bottles from this time period appear to either be the low colour blue, or they are amber.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjv1vw1ucfUr8FP_YSyUoIr1XOgOXk0OfDwEUzTy4V7_vWIR-4s-3vd2MEDvP4BM4rMOA_VVJ-ke760ha59-qzfQJJ37Y_Qbe0eSW20j0SBbSazmg2vtOdmUJX6NBvSmdrWpPfbvoWxZT0/s3145/IMG_6232.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3145" data-original-width="1000" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjv1vw1ucfUr8FP_YSyUoIr1XOgOXk0OfDwEUzTy4V7_vWIR-4s-3vd2MEDvP4BM4rMOA_VVJ-ke760ha59-qzfQJJ37Y_Qbe0eSW20j0SBbSazmg2vtOdmUJX6NBvSmdrWpPfbvoWxZT0/s320/IMG_6232.jpg" width="102" /></a></div></div><p>While British Beer bottles were all green to black (these are a collection of semi-automatic machine made bottles from John Lumb and Co.).</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkpnCEU_V8crt9wPVvkUEiT5pnFAa1SsJzDZqBqyh-l55wYyqJFXpL4BTmXYiR-NqN_9j7kgFVqtEUQXNua2d0Hk-4d8vAlcGjGcJv8nPjVNO19w9Zlqg4GUkpZAaGGsllaTVEuFMK028/s2048/121+IMG_5911+122%252C+123%252C+124+J+L+%2526+Co+Ld+C+bottles+cropped.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1631" data-original-width="2048" height="255" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkpnCEU_V8crt9wPVvkUEiT5pnFAa1SsJzDZqBqyh-l55wYyqJFXpL4BTmXYiR-NqN_9j7kgFVqtEUQXNua2d0Hk-4d8vAlcGjGcJv8nPjVNO19w9Zlqg4GUkpZAaGGsllaTVEuFMK028/s320/121+IMG_5911+122%252C+123%252C+124+J+L+%2526+Co+Ld+C+bottles+cropped.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVYocZFyxayiTFtBqq4QQClBsMs4vyXWqzSkbwrSoqW8nICaAQTu9auH7MeZMvO8F-mp9XD8UzA80g_tk-jgv587abMdyNaznY8lctdnjkM6qHL2dQMO9gZ2i2CoOxtCesVnt2aLS_Y4A/s1617/121+J+L+%2526+Co+Ld+C+bottle+IMG_5912+cropped.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1617" data-original-width="1411" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVYocZFyxayiTFtBqq4QQClBsMs4vyXWqzSkbwrSoqW8nICaAQTu9auH7MeZMvO8F-mp9XD8UzA80g_tk-jgv587abMdyNaznY8lctdnjkM6qHL2dQMO9gZ2i2CoOxtCesVnt2aLS_Y4A/s320/121+J+L+%2526+Co+Ld+C+bottle+IMG_5912+cropped.jpg" width="279" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /></div>Take a look at your collections and see if these colours are reflected in your early-20th century bottles.<br /><p><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2886737049184020992.post-35536611008186714822021-05-23T10:03:00.001-06:002021-05-23T10:20:47.068-06:00Applied Colour Labels on pop bottles / The Lions Ginger Ale<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">As "Historical Archaeology" ages, we are called to know more about bottles of 20th century. The soft drink industry is quite interesting. Although soda bottles existed for many years before, the soft drink industry exploded with Prohibition in the 1920s. </span></div><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">Applied Colour Labels (ACL) </span><span style="font-size: 16px; white-space: pre-wrap;">(also referred to as enamelled, painted-on, lithographed, or screen-printed) </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">are those labels on glass bottles that are colourful and seemingly fused to the glass like </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">paint. We all know a good old fashioned Coke bottle with an ACL.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-s2XxF4Aticrx1sCU3p989Ca86nKgyGOxJ4mNYB2J4Yvj-oefpBF9gXzOSgpFECTnS8hiL3jDbIOJ9itdmCgI1HpWm1NTF_D1XRkQhYrxAIPF6lwqU9zxYlDvZ-V3oSKvcBOli1yhxcc/s536/Screen+Shot+2021-05-23+at+9.41.53+AM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><img border="0" data-original-height="536" data-original-width="177" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-s2XxF4Aticrx1sCU3p989Ca86nKgyGOxJ4mNYB2J4Yvj-oefpBF9gXzOSgpFECTnS8hiL3jDbIOJ9itdmCgI1HpWm1NTF_D1XRkQhYrxAIPF6lwqU9zxYlDvZ-V3oSKvcBOli1yhxcc/s320/Screen+Shot+2021-05-23+at+9.41.53+AM.png" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Embossed bottles were dominant in the ‘20s and ‘30s, but the ACLs took over the market because of their colour and durability. The first ACL on such bottles was used around 1934. Drying time limited the labels to 1 or 2 colours until a technological development in the mid-1950s allowed colours to be applied more quickly, meaning that a label with 3 or more colours post-dates that time.</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">As an example, here is the Lions Ginger Ale bottle found in Vancouver, BC:</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The Lions Dry Ginger Ale bottle</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> – Van Bros / Lions Mineral Water Works, Vancouver, BC, 1934-1952</span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Six fragments from a clear bottle were recovered. The bottle was broken and not all of the pieces were recovered. The bottle was embossed as well as having an applied colour label (ACL), which is only visible now as a shadow on the bottle. “The Lions Dry Ginger Ale” is visible in the shadow, and “..N BROS. LTD” is embossed near the base.</span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: none; display: inline-block; height: 173px; overflow: hidden; width: 129px;"><img height="173" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/f2y7QtVEb2n6ni_wr4Mci4J_9YAhB58Y1X2geJSJZI52vhjKAEvvdnMWE6xVZRokXo_t67a1jwDXrRAIBZ6YvJS9E68zZJCIXQemuij5dMSF1_KgBDqlK4tqcoOx_8J8rqqQepk" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px;" width="129" /></span></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: none; display: inline-block; height: 108px; overflow: hidden; width: 144px;"><img height="108" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/xi1_byPltYLvTsKr1DTHT1Wi2ONEerH4sLLTF7xQx3nk47uFaQxJmrD5Z0RBGdqdq-PQGH4J9DYeldQaoUV94LydEC_SQqYCLf6GmyBs20_1uI6ZhbZwkcAk7SQAt5loFy0MHlg" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px;" width="144" /></span></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: none; display: inline-block; height: 108px; overflow: hidden; width: 144px;"><img alt="A close up of a cat
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Description automatically generated with low confidence" height="108" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/UtCRQ4TGAzH0S3gsSXBSx7416eCIAE37poHrjN3T4Z6m6x9y03iSUPDoQNqDfzP2__njM3PpizqazCcWjik5ehVPWpklnGnyyqeFcBDnUvKpGTwf52-UIt8jFvULKiAlLgeuF64" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px;" width="144" /></span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial;">#32 – The Lions Dry Ginger Ale Van Bros bottle </span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The same bottle was found at the Museum of Vancouver:</span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: none; display: inline-block; height: 381px; overflow: hidden; width: 144px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img alt="A glass bottle with a label
Description automatically generated with low confidence" height="381" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/j_gUrEO6wEAZ9xoVc6PQxS2jqw7hCLuJFUnBiIIVW2rZ3WtXgOp_rtEeUijEBWfxYKinUAZqBaqJq5dxVzhmPDMyklZWVHCbrrXW-B-52p94aHUyjH393_cj3Bnxp8u2etEoRD8" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px;" width="144" /></span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Same bottle from the Museum of Vancouver collections (cat. No. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 10.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">H2000.37.33 </span><a href="http://openmov.museumofvancouver.ca/object/history/h20003733" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0563c1; font-size: 10.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline;">http://openmov.museumofvancouver.ca/object/history/h20003733</span></a><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">)</span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The description from the Museum of Vancouver reads: “Clear glass bottle with crown cap lip. Embossed on shoulders with vertical fluting for half of the diameter and similar fluting on lower portion of body for full circumference. Embossed on back "The Lions Net Contents 7 Fl.Oz." and "Gold Medal Brussels 1906 Van Bros. Ltd." Bottom embossed "Made in U.S.A. 2 2 7" , an undecipherable logo with (apparently) number below "1923-G". Painted label "The Lions Dry Ginger Ale Excellent Blend for Liquors The Lions Mineral Water Works Vancouver B.C." and twin peaked mountains in green and white. All framed in a white painted border.”</span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Henry C. and Herbert F. Van came to Canada in 1906. The first mention of the Vans in their own cider business is in the 1918 Vancouver Directory where Herbert Van is listed being “of Van’s Cider”. In the 1919 directory, they are both listed “of Van Bros”. At the time, they were likely making soft cider since Prohibition in BC lasted from In 1921, Van Bros. is at 1502 Venables St. They are noted as cider manufacturers (which, according to this ad in the May 22, 1925 edition) referred to both soft and slightly hard ciders. </span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: none; display: inline-block; height: 198px; overflow: hidden; width: 190px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img alt="Text
Description automatically generated" height="198" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/Ewvhu69rm3MmosqKkswfmQx0yd8lBlEyYmIzlYgaKC2-1Diy_uYt8-uAWZRY_sAcw_Yj4tUtokhMa9SW5qpZ8-5b6UDOMRAGL1rSBtBQ7BomvnCKtwfZHieLKvk6QlYxgoOcGcU" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px;" width="190" /></span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial;">British Columbia Federationist February 20, 1920 (https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/bcnewspapers/bcfed/items/1.0345416#p1z-1r0f:)</span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: none; display: inline-block; height: 72px; overflow: hidden; width: 290px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img alt="Text, letter
Description automatically generated" height="72" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/EH7B42c3AEn49L_pTRIjaamOoKOsEDBuqYcOywivb7eMCMhyoNveN1-LZxN2mU48vVn8GP0lr8rUn41j3xSCWfg1p8gZWy2t4T4Y9a5JmVPUmk-QjCsF0Rey-hj3hEMrgHlP1LY" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px;" width="290" /></span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">British Columbia Retailer 1921 (</span><a href="https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/bcnewspapers/bcret/items/1.0344698#p20z-3r0f" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #0563c1; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline;">https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/bcnewspapers/bcret/items/1.0344698#p20z-3r0f</span></a><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">:)</span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: none; display: inline-block; height: 299px; overflow: hidden; width: 314px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img alt="Text
Description automatically generated" height="299" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/sure8GJRB5WBleN0I1Rq4UWMUQAVKZ0OB9PX4zUeThxIzvQjtvX-Ty-lp0XCBBy21xNDkrt_591mqqGMjMTmzjbdGaNMc1ZdSGxfTJuMxmfe3Fu-eY3I9k7UKYsuviyBGe66wBk" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px;" width="314" /></span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">British Columbia Federationist, May 22, 1925 (</span><a href="https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/bcnewspapers/bcfed/items/1.0345231#p1z0r0f" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #0563c1; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline;">https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/bcnewspapers/bcfed/items/1.0345231#p1z0r0f</span></a><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">:)</span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The First Mention of the Lions Mineral Water Works is in 1927 in the Wrigley’s British Columbia Directory and has no commercial address, just the personal address of Mr. Robert M. Campbell is listed. At that time the name appears to be owned by Campbell. In 1929, Lions Mineral Water Works is listed at the same address as Van Bros. Cider, indicating to me that Van Bros bought out Campbell (or bought the name from him, or brought him onboard) in 1928 or 1929 and started bottling soft drinks at or near that time. The actions of a thirsty, persnickety burglar confirms that the Lions Mineral Water Works was at 1055 Vernon Drive by September 25, 1929.</span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: none; display: inline-block; height: 166px; overflow: hidden; width: 206px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img alt="Text
Description automatically generated" height="166" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/N10IYGUUZOkN6JY0djNKgbLU7hKT48hm4aCK_r4pYkeyvfb0bE0wqHC7-HFMhRG_L8HLHpADtbVnML35bbvV2s1dNLd5vj12YwGGenATJcNWex0h44UiYiYge93VG1hkM_0G5O8" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px;" width="206" /></span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">The Vancouver Sun, September 25, 1929 (</span><a href="https://www.newspapers.com/image/490777512/?terms=%22Lions%20Mineral%20Water%20Works%22" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #0563c1; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline;">https://www.newspapers.com/image/490777512/?terms=%22Lions%20Mineral%20Water%20Works%22</span></a><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">). </span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">In 1934 the Applied Colour Label was first used on Soft Drink Bottles (</span><a href="https://www.angelfire.com/zine2/thesodafizz/PSBCA.html" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #0563c1; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline;">https://www.angelfire.com/zine2/thesodafizz/PSBCA.html</span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">, </span><a href="http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/bottles-glass/241475-earliest-painted-label-soda-bottles-acls.html" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #0563c1; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline;">http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/bottles-glass/241475-earliest-painted-label-soda-bottles-acls.html</span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">), establishing that as an “earliest” date. </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The Province, April 19, 1938, p.2</span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial;">A rather curious aspect of the bottle is that, like its counterpart at the Museum of Vancouver it would have had "Gold Medal Brussels 1906 Van Bros. Ltd" embossed on it. I suspect this was a marketing ploy since the Van Brothers moved to Vancouver in 1906 at the ages of 26 and 22 and didn’t appear to start their cider company until 10 years later, their soda business another 10 years later. As well, there does not appear to have been any carbonated beverage contest in Brussels in 1906.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="border: none; display: inline-block; height: 230px; overflow: hidden; width: 305px;"><img alt="Text, letter
Description automatically generated" height="230" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/AnbDbVxgyVAI5FzOs2sTBQ-BHmohSMMHx4CTFiCFOV-M9K153V3MP5V85MVzQqdDDpxc93t8rGZZYvsenLOzZkA8EyGWy8DI6QVbDwFPY5vRd4aRYdikdnFggAJyvHbNUXwmspI" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px;" width="305" /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: normal;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; white-space: normal;"><span style="font-family: arial;">In 1938, the business is under the new ownership of J.O. Halifax but the names Van Bros and Lions Mineral Water Works continue to be used. The Lions Mineral Water Works last appears in the City Director in 1949. The business is renamed Lions Beverages but it only appears in the directory for 1950-51. The new manager is J.N. Turvey. In 1952 Pepsi-Cola opens a branch in Vancouver on the former premises of the Lions Beverages. </span></span></span></p></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><br /><p><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2886737049184020992.post-73467377098191553302021-05-19T13:48:00.002-06:002022-09-04T17:01:12.866-06:00E.B. Millar Spice Bottle<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">E.B. Millar & Co.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">, company: Chicago, IL / contents: various sources, 1883 – ca. 1930</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEic91NBdzrMJrceQ9MUt9KTbiZohuuNour1THpDKMdiCJKnXN1y9MLZJ-3BUKEieG2-ghohBmBJJhHqy9NlneQzg842IbPm7zX6GZGM59nSpD2bq9mnh_Zegxl4fvnCwYD_iyRLultSo90JkzdyhJxXNE4v1-SEyQomIQgYzVC-TWSgY60QvEKBwIPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEic91NBdzrMJrceQ9MUt9KTbiZohuuNour1THpDKMdiCJKnXN1y9MLZJ-3BUKEieG2-ghohBmBJJhHqy9NlneQzg842IbPm7zX6GZGM59nSpD2bq9mnh_Zegxl4fvnCwYD_iyRLultSo90JkzdyhJxXNE4v1-SEyQomIQgYzVC-TWSgY60QvEKBwIPG=w300-h400" width="300" /></a> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgFdpHsLt5OOJ6GqZrwqr8ehSxnyyi5rsheLoB_0OvBZk8O6y8KXtai1Vd312ItOE-59qyR-AxpB_rgfjj2yP1ib7HggkiqBUd9nlvfnseFgzjM4h-N1hemsZdkTNKkc7QcoYN2LVjXr4df_cJNFC0paZMu8TQ-kkquuBfjaOo0NkGy2FlEgQA_fDzK" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="676" data-original-width="750" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgFdpHsLt5OOJ6GqZrwqr8ehSxnyyi5rsheLoB_0OvBZk8O6y8KXtai1Vd312ItOE-59qyR-AxpB_rgfjj2yP1ib7HggkiqBUd9nlvfnseFgzjM4h-N1hemsZdkTNKkc7QcoYN2LVjXr4df_cJNFC0paZMu8TQ-kkquuBfjaOo0NkGy2FlEgQA_fDzK" width="266" /></a></div></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span></div></div><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">This intricately embossed bottle (17 cm tall, 6.3 cm in diameter) was made in a semi-automatic machine </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">(as per the valve mark) in a two-piece post-bottom mould. The continuous thread finish was made in the </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">mould and has a very rough surface, indicating early technology. The base is embossed with a 3.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">The embossing reads:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">E. B. MILLAR & CO.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">IMPORTERS & GRINDERS</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">QUALITY PURITY ABSOLUTE</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">FINE SPICES ETC.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">TRADE MARK</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">CHICAGO</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><br /><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">The Millar logo in the middle of the embossing is a & above a stylized EBM encircled in a C with an “O” (the rest of “Co”) </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">in the opening of the C.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">E.B. Millar & Co. was established in January 1883 and was one of the largest importers of spices in the country by 1885 </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">(No Author 1885-86:421).</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoX_X3hXYo3O2BYd0QbVnDCENEBMXDXTrrbmJhDubp95qRIYvbhCp3TZ7Z28RtIr29lobMARQtUD5DMM6kWVFmilP8HyxiGQqWZbHNUeMG6fh4AxYi3LvIFj5NohQMwL73DcV6ilsImvA/s373/Screen+Shot+2021-05-19+at+1.46.54+PM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="307" data-original-width="373" height="329" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoX_X3hXYo3O2BYd0QbVnDCENEBMXDXTrrbmJhDubp95qRIYvbhCp3TZ7Z28RtIr29lobMARQtUD5DMM6kWVFmilP8HyxiGQqWZbHNUeMG6fh4AxYi3LvIFj5NohQMwL73DcV6ilsImvA/w400-h329/Screen+Shot+2021-05-19+at+1.46.54+PM.png" width="400" /></a></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="border: none; display: inline-block; height: 205px; overflow: hidden; width: 238px;"><span style="text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://books.google.ca/books?id=jHxQAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA421&lpg=PA421&dq=E.B.+Millar+spice+merchant&source=bl&ots=p3WIt2ewDk&sig=ACfU3U1ITPuaJ99N_us69DSio4CEitOXkA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi0nO6qiazpAhVxNX0KHQJFAwAQ6AEwAHoECAgQAQ#v=onepage&q=E.B.%20Millar%20spice%20merchant&f=false">https://books.google.ca/books?id=jHxQAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA421&lpg=PA421&dq=E.B.+Millar+spice+merchant&source=bl&ots=p3WIt2ewDk&sig=ACfU3U1ITPuaJ99N_us69DSio4CEitOXkA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi0nO6qiazpAhVxNX0KHQJFAwAQ6AEwAHoECAgQAQ#v=onepage&q=E.B.%20Millar%20spice%20merchant&f=false</a></span></span></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEir-_YD9RnK9ahUBgBMWhLIi_DGAQpsLl7DAS4TBjekU_yWlHQuFc8-RvJe8EXn_U5s8_-X9i5QAwea9W7PRNBg-FEgQAzNzxWfOOObVVTW9rJwx3hOVOSv2a-O_kgqOswTjIXojw18pYQ/s691/Screen+Shot+2021-05-19+at+1.42.02+PM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="388" data-original-width="691" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEir-_YD9RnK9ahUBgBMWhLIi_DGAQpsLl7DAS4TBjekU_yWlHQuFc8-RvJe8EXn_U5s8_-X9i5QAwea9W7PRNBg-FEgQAzNzxWfOOObVVTW9rJwx3hOVOSv2a-O_kgqOswTjIXojw18pYQ/w640-h360/Screen+Shot+2021-05-19+at+1.42.02+PM.png" width="640" /></a></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">From the Butte Miner (Butte Montana) July 2, 1907 p.5 (newspapers.com)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">The E. B. Millar Coffee Co. (assumed to be the same company) filed for bankruptcy in 1980.</span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2886737049184020992.post-71342553269769544922021-05-19T11:53:00.014-06:002022-09-04T17:17:59.273-06:00Smelling History<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Another interesting artifact and experience from an excavation in the Lower Mainland of British Columbia, Canada.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNhtGwhuW0SREbYwR09vXgLjfpQ7_aFpgqTSlxY4tahQTrYtQrLJY8vUMw2n6dQi2eoxvYDWc8psKVzwWbt4klHEqUIS8Bxk1J7DoGpoJ3H-jQ5nimZ17R0PIj5morH1sby5kyL52BFkvHhyvi4RRaKIzPCQfxybCRlVID0qUbLPEW2M9KcdLgACAC/s537/28%20DSCF4473%20crop%20colour%20size.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="537" height="268" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNhtGwhuW0SREbYwR09vXgLjfpQ7_aFpgqTSlxY4tahQTrYtQrLJY8vUMw2n6dQi2eoxvYDWc8psKVzwWbt4klHEqUIS8Bxk1J7DoGpoJ3H-jQ5nimZ17R0PIj5morH1sby5kyL52BFkvHhyvi4RRaKIzPCQfxybCRlVID0qUbLPEW2M9KcdLgACAC/s320/28%20DSCF4473%20crop%20colour%20size.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFV8SRDQbVKIdKBn9aTA6L_WGEkQ6NPJ6cAgm7JNT-lf77vdIzY3dJPvd53kqkhSOvUelllhQImtSVh8N3rQHbwmXu2T4gKW3uId0YHUCJedX_iaWNACnAyHd_hjcwDpdzGFDuMaW1dhMS4Z8H7SvMA_zJTMAZgAqmOH_XwHj0dx3MCO1ztHBgOZbB/s750/28%20DSCF4520%20crop%20colour%20size.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="750" data-original-width="291" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFV8SRDQbVKIdKBn9aTA6L_WGEkQ6NPJ6cAgm7JNT-lf77vdIzY3dJPvd53kqkhSOvUelllhQImtSVh8N3rQHbwmXu2T4gKW3uId0YHUCJedX_iaWNACnAyHd_hjcwDpdzGFDuMaW1dhMS4Z8H7SvMA_zJTMAZgAqmOH_XwHj0dx3MCO1ztHBgOZbB/s320/28%20DSCF4520%20crop%20colour%20size.jpg" width="124" /></a><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpog6koXTzHGJ9oJUfY8DblXKmKoivNZOzrDLd1YLsyJWi41mXV_LXqp85tbZt5UBY-f76JsvUcWMdVWt419w7iy18Y35_0UFCDK5VzJMX9Xh965ySvmg9j-9uobFEJ4EmfW4ETMUOvSn0DiW_9FXNjDubYqZXJQGXpDns2sHcVIlHqML2e25XdXPs/s600/28%20DSCF4521%20crop%20colour%20size.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="600" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpog6koXTzHGJ9oJUfY8DblXKmKoivNZOzrDLd1YLsyJWi41mXV_LXqp85tbZt5UBY-f76JsvUcWMdVWt419w7iy18Y35_0UFCDK5VzJMX9Xh965ySvmg9j-9uobFEJ4EmfW4ETMUOvSn0DiW_9FXNjDubYqZXJQGXpDns2sHcVIlHqML2e25XdXPs/s320/28%20DSCF4521%20crop%20colour%20size.jpg" width="320" /></a></div></div><br /><br /><br /></span><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Ed Pinaud Hair Tonic Bottle</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">, Paris, France, </span><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">pre-1897 – ca. 1920</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">This is a pale green, mould-blown bottle (17 cm tall, 5.5 cm basal width) made in a 3-piece cup-bottom </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">mould with a hand applied lip. The bottle is rectangular in cross-section with flattened corners. "Pinaud" </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">is clearly marked on the base.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Edouard Pinaud bought a perfume company in Paris in 1840. He and his friend and partner, Emile Meyer, </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">had Pinaud & Meyer in Paris until 1868 when Pinaud died. Meyer changed the name to Ed. Pinaud around</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">1872. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">This December 1897 ad clearly shows this style of bottle in the middle – the shape they used for Extract Végétal A L’ixora – a hair tonic used by barbers.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipgK8em7HOZxDw6s8m0YimCTuqwCgPGZ6doT9fO17uhYzJIJYvLYvltvGOe6SzYUWVtrG-cA6GmPtpE2mwroqvRJjy6LGuX_ogUwg1N0aZIckSXlZ2X1-zO-dlZS25ZT3v0eeBqMo3XbGAJ3gUnzRkil5H1YF5V3s9RqRBHkAXBPrMG2rPHDxmosYg/s366/Pinaud's%201887.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="364" data-original-width="366" height="318" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipgK8em7HOZxDw6s8m0YimCTuqwCgPGZ6doT9fO17uhYzJIJYvLYvltvGOe6SzYUWVtrG-cA6GmPtpE2mwroqvRJjy6LGuX_ogUwg1N0aZIckSXlZ2X1-zO-dlZS25ZT3v0eeBqMo3XbGAJ3gUnzRkil5H1YF5V3s9RqRBHkAXBPrMG2rPHDxmosYg/s320/Pinaud's%201887.png" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">1897 Pinaud Ad</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">This other ad also shows this style of bottle used for toilet water: Ed. Pinaud’s Lilac Vegetal.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDPE_zZSVthaxv4Mv-E84pINkBiRNEOrtLoRYohIpCT1fyaoxpgP3n5LqPV9NQGwAn2YnIIFtU6vewQpwI-R5rDFjTk-wqEv9o0J8PTrYRjrs83IH-xc4QOuiThd5uZnD3OV0RrBUWc3IOhzMrTSDb_7prkzLJN8-nmNzfc9TV3Xg085On-UH-K7k3/s380/Pinaud%201897.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="274" data-original-width="380" height="231" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDPE_zZSVthaxv4Mv-E84pINkBiRNEOrtLoRYohIpCT1fyaoxpgP3n5LqPV9NQGwAn2YnIIFtU6vewQpwI-R5rDFjTk-wqEv9o0J8PTrYRjrs83IH-xc4QOuiThd5uZnD3OV0RrBUWc3IOhzMrTSDb_7prkzLJN8-nmNzfc9TV3Xg085On-UH-K7k3/s320/Pinaud%201897.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Pinaud’s Ad</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">The bottle found in this collection is embossed with Ed. Pinaud on the base and also had a label applied </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">to the side panel – painted, probably – with “Pinaud” still barely visible. On the other side panel is </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">“Ed Pinaud / Paris” with Pinaud’s traditional floral basket between them.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvN9y_UypzdrpfujmOclIxRRmJyHvoYz87Vk0UdWOXlo_5BNmr_77iqTnOvUandBzNkw0AzizdtDju5TZE_atwetK9HPZ9kXc-DCLbbyjL_1gnFzgKzVHUYArpZrxrvhao4z3e1adwd1w36Xz0m7678ASaVuoUWPxL3wCOyLwYIz17Cknnch9ePrY8/s600/28%20DSCF4474%20crop%20colour%20size.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="443" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvN9y_UypzdrpfujmOclIxRRmJyHvoYz87Vk0UdWOXlo_5BNmr_77iqTnOvUandBzNkw0AzizdtDju5TZE_atwetK9HPZ9kXc-DCLbbyjL_1gnFzgKzVHUYArpZrxrvhao4z3e1adwd1w36Xz0m7678ASaVuoUWPxL3wCOyLwYIz17Cknnch9ePrY8/s320/28%20DSCF4474%20crop%20colour%20size.jpg" width="236" /></a></div><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSuN-W8b4F9kxdcrOa7b1pBHCAberQV-ERDsW3YQITsWkGPkvTYTOTIZegRLv-ElzFPYuo9CveD5FDc17XmeKljnndF4bft706XHYS7ofHtqd84qV5vOkZZ7f9Die31nI-9rQZIlNjv0OcEDpZnO5vkb0a6b6Ad3TXVesoqLrCA1ptbanTokMAv_Lk/s750/28%20DSCF4523%20crop%20colour%20size.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="243" data-original-width="750" height="208" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSuN-W8b4F9kxdcrOa7b1pBHCAberQV-ERDsW3YQITsWkGPkvTYTOTIZegRLv-ElzFPYuo9CveD5FDc17XmeKljnndF4bft706XHYS7ofHtqd84qV5vOkZZ7f9Die31nI-9rQZIlNjv0OcEDpZnO5vkb0a6b6Ad3TXVesoqLrCA1ptbanTokMAv_Lk/w640-h208/28%20DSCF4523%20crop%20colour%20size.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span></div><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">The amazing thing about this find - more than just the knowledge of where it was from - was that there was</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">still a small amount of liquid still in the bottle. As I handled it, some leaked out onto my hand and it still </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">had a mild floral scent – less like lilac and more like a masculine hair tonic.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">It's just so tangible to be able to smell history.</span></p><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2886737049184020992.post-10182538097327716742021-05-18T15:33:00.006-06:002022-01-27T11:26:54.595-07:00Hearing History<p>"<span face="sans-serif">The Indestructible Phonograph Co. of Albany, New York, produced molded celluloid cylinders beginning in 1907. The company made both two- and four-minute cylinders, and the repertoire was similar to that of Edison and Columbia cylinders. The cylinders had a thick cardboard core and metal rim ends to keep them rigid. Production continued until 1922, and cylinders were issued both under the</span><span face="sans-serif"> </span><a href="http://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/search.php?nq=1&query=Indestructible+Record&query_type=keyword" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: sans-serif;">Indestructible Record</a><span face="sans-serif"> </span><span face="sans-serif">label and also for Sears, Roebuck, and Co. as Oxford Indestructible Records, as pictured above. From 1908 to 1912 they were also distributed by the Columbia Phonograph Co.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: sans-serif;">Regardless of the brand under which they were sold, Indestructible cylinders all have the same content for a given catalog number and carry no company identification on the cylinder itself, so if they have become separated from their original boxes, the different brands are indistinguishable." (<a href="http://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/history-indestructible.php" target="_blank">source</a>)</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: arial;">In the spring of 2021, an archaeological investigation in the Lower Mainland of British Columbia coughed up an old gramophone cylinder. A product of the Indestructible Phonograph Co., the cylinder, 100 years after it was made, still clearly had the name of the song and musician ("Put on your old Grey Bonnet" by Harlan & Chorus), as well as the number "1303" on it. </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaSIw8dLUjJlOgCbBqpKr1-AxA9H9J-f5RnjvRbAv2GM4FF8BnfM2NDHR9nYR5l572x8Bvw2S65j0MfZ_9qRqGcTNTUQsiR9VhCrntx_Dic3ub3m7wmyePu3Ns40dfjpk_25x-rWmQRQ4/s2048/%25231+Indestructible+Record+1303+end.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaSIw8dLUjJlOgCbBqpKr1-AxA9H9J-f5RnjvRbAv2GM4FF8BnfM2NDHR9nYR5l572x8Bvw2S65j0MfZ_9qRqGcTNTUQsiR9VhCrntx_Dic3ub3m7wmyePu3Ns40dfjpk_25x-rWmQRQ4/s320/%25231+Indestructible+Record+1303+end.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjd_ko3fQaFDCdY_BSoq9ldVNbhW-huznrKAlXBnwxSF6JI9UcOkwpJlunbTqqwjwE3-kwHvKNSmUS_mozlsfLOeY5-NF7IuqF6QWnHtzHduC8OBr4LuHi2p0iE0-FZbZaDbE9op98SCVk/s2048/%25231+Indestructible+Record+1303+all.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1853" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjd_ko3fQaFDCdY_BSoq9ldVNbhW-huznrKAlXBnwxSF6JI9UcOkwpJlunbTqqwjwE3-kwHvKNSmUS_mozlsfLOeY5-NF7IuqF6QWnHtzHduC8OBr4LuHi2p0iE0-FZbZaDbE9op98SCVk/s320/%25231+Indestructible+Record+1303+all.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Byron G. Harlan was a prolific musician in the early decades of the 20th century. His name can be found in various newspapers with the new releases of the month like this one from The Salem News (Ohio) September 25, 1908 where a store was to play the new Edison releases:</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0HvbIZ_8Uq-CjjSTjfn8bZT6Mq7UhWL4XiwOvA3g7MEfl-f9IlOG1IttHmiiLwtKzlU5Sp-DkYdPoLCNxq33R8qLF_I4C-n7pt5oDc8qNW7vfPEyKomJvpcjfR69vk5oJ2p2fIPmXv_Y/s751/Screen+Shot+2021-05-18+at+3.28.35+PM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img border="0" data-original-height="577" data-original-width="751" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0HvbIZ_8Uq-CjjSTjfn8bZT6Mq7UhWL4XiwOvA3g7MEfl-f9IlOG1IttHmiiLwtKzlU5Sp-DkYdPoLCNxq33R8qLF_I4C-n7pt5oDc8qNW7vfPEyKomJvpcjfR69vk5oJ2p2fIPmXv_Y/s320/Screen+Shot+2021-05-18+at+3.28.35+PM.png" width="320" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Indestructible Records' recordings are housed at the University of California Santa Barbara Library in their Cylinder Audio Archive (<a href="http://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/history-indestructible.php" target="_blank">source</a>).</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The recording found on this cylinder is here: <a href="http://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/detail.php?query_type=mms_id&query=990029747440203776&r=2&of=2">http://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/detail.php?query_type=mms_id&query=990029747440203776&r=2&of=2</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">I find it quite magical to find such an artifact and within minutes be able to listen to what it used to hold.</span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: sans-serif;"><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2886737049184020992.post-39492256581133916552021-05-14T16:03:00.046-06:002021-12-24T20:26:09.047-07:00Japanese porcelain and the Blue Dragon Inn in Horseshoe Bay<p><span>Working on an historic archaeology collection from Horseshoe Bay, British Columbia, I came across 14 sherds of Japanese porcelain. This is not uncommon in Western Canada. Japanese porcelain was ubiquitous around the turn of the 20th century and into the 20s. But their probable connection to a business in the town is intriguing.</span></p><p><span>Japan was mostly closed off from the rest of the world from 1639 until 1853 under the isolationist foreign policy (Sakoku) of the Tokungawa shogunate (Bakufu) (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sakoku">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sakoku</a>). <span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ceramics from Japanese potteries still continued to be traded directly to the west up until about 1740 (</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_pottery_and_porcelain#Meiji_era" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_pottery_and_porcelain#Meiji_era</span></a><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">)</span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. After that time, some Japanese ceramics still dribbled out to the Western world through the Dutch and Chinese trading posts of Dejima (near Nagasaki) (</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dejima" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dejima</span></a>)<span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Japanese export styles were likely influenced by Chinese tastes.</span></span></p><p><span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-3a46b147-7fff-12bb-e6fd-1fb518b2c4f9"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">The opening of trade in the 1850s and ‘60s allowed not only for more exports, but also for the participation of the Japanese in world expositions like the Exposition Universelle in 1867 (World Fair in Paris). Their presence helped create the Japonisme movement</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> (</span></span></span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japonisme" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japonisme</span></a>) <span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">and a demand for Japanese arts including highly skilled and detailed Japanese porcelains. At first, only wealthy Westerners could afford such luxuries as Japanese porcelain, but by the late 1890s, mass production became possible through the use of transfer prints, and more people could afford the cheaper wares. For instance, the 1895 Montgomery Ward & Co. Catalogue has a section for “Fine Japanese Tea Services”, and the Sears, Roebuck Catalogue from 1908 has a section on “Japanese China”, demonstrating their general popularity and affordable prices in turn-of-the-20</span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: 0.6em; vertical-align: super;">th</span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">-century North America. </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">The popular Japanese porcelain patterns (Dragon and Phoenix) found at Horseshoe Bay were made </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">with transfer print technology – something that started in Japan in 1888 (</span><a href="https://apps.jefpat.maryland.gov/diagnostic/Porcelain/PorcelainWareDescriptions/JapanesePorcelain-intro.html" style="text-decoration: none;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">https://apps.jefpat.maryland.gov/diagnostic/Porcelain/PorcelainWareDescriptions/JapanesePorcelain-intro.html</span></a><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> from </span><a href="http://www.chipstone.org/article.php/515/Ceramics-in-America-2012/Late-Nineteenth--and-Early-Twentieth-Century-Japanese-Domestic-Wares-from-British-Columbia" style="text-decoration: none;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">http://www.chipstone.org/article.php/515/Ceramics-in-America-2012/Late-Nineteenth--and-Early-Twentieth-Century-Japanese-Domestic-Wares-from-British-Columbia</span></a><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">)</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">These could date anywhere from 1888 to WWII or even possibly later, but the biggest imports were </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">from the 1910s to the 1930s (</span><a href="https://www.lib.uidaho.edu/digital/hjccc/data/hjccc-137.html" style="text-decoration: none;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">https://www.lib.uidaho.edu/digital/hjccc/data/hjccc-137.html</span></a><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">). </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Japanese porcelain dragon pattern</span><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">, cup and saucer fragments</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Three cup fragments and one saucer fragment of a mass-produced, transfer-printed Dragon porcelain </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">pattern were found in various locations at the site. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiaAxsvvgTRy3DtqrvSo4yCx3K1_OKCpIzfSIPoO5GgkLRpuwSPRicd00duQWhDaz2d2NOuhPVJspaIZnHBEIGdaNcrsIjR04p0AJeoHkI536ZluA0KIwfcuMrk5mJIHLAEeGxqwypTjIt1ufSSRCK0wMDsb1siBMoYMRYQ_XcwtWYYaBCZYutcj9Ng=s300" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="300" data-original-width="224" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiaAxsvvgTRy3DtqrvSo4yCx3K1_OKCpIzfSIPoO5GgkLRpuwSPRicd00duQWhDaz2d2NOuhPVJspaIZnHBEIGdaNcrsIjR04p0AJeoHkI536ZluA0KIwfcuMrk5mJIHLAEeGxqwypTjIt1ufSSRCK0wMDsb1siBMoYMRYQ_XcwtWYYaBCZYutcj9Ng=w299-h400" width="299" /></a></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">cup and saucer fragments with Dragon pattern</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">In Sinospheric (the Chinese cultural sphere – including Japan) mythology, the masculine dragon </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">(below on the right) was often paired with the feminine Hō-ō bird (below on the left).</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhZHxVmT0MmtjVlkvD7NFvCYgetLn_CFxg2_OGaZNmn8B4P52PF1zPkaMyHDoGFAOze5zkBvunGlBZkhZoR3uh4TCFucXAINij7WlwKJYxej5n51OrcCV6_4Jo7qWlvUSmtIgqNiZAexq_SFue2wBXbRCKSt8YhNutX7FKqU_IFpQkVzExcNklAfdaB=s600" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="600" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhZHxVmT0MmtjVlkvD7NFvCYgetLn_CFxg2_OGaZNmn8B4P52PF1zPkaMyHDoGFAOze5zkBvunGlBZkhZoR3uh4TCFucXAINij7WlwKJYxej5n51OrcCV6_4Jo7qWlvUSmtIgqNiZAexq_SFue2wBXbRCKSt8YhNutX7FKqU_IFpQkVzExcNklAfdaB=s320" width="320" /></a></span></div><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">1923 Chinese Coin showing Phoenix and Dragon</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> </span><a href="https://coins.ha.com/itm/china/china-republic-silver-pattern-dragon-and-phoenix-dollar-year-12-1923-au55-ngc-/a/3050-37165.s" style="text-decoration: none;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">https://coins.ha.com/itm/china/china-republic-silver-pattern-dragon-and-phoenix-dollar-year-12-1923-au55-ngc-/a/3050-37165.s#</span></a></span></p><p><span><span id="docs-internal-guid-dc9520ff-7fff-f2b9-0aa9-fe6da22a8cd0"><br /><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The dragon is a symbol of power, strength and good luck (</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_dragon" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_dragon</span></a><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">). The dragon is often depicted as a 4-legged sharp-toothed serpent with a mane, beard and whiskers, often with part of its body on fire. Being such a powerful symbol, it is not surprisingly a popular design (</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_dragon" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_dragon</span></a><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">). </span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">The almost complete base of one of the teacups is absent any marks, indicating that it is pre-WWII - as everything had to be marked after that.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">The pieces show a variant of this pattern (note the pattern around the rim compared with the rim fragment </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">photographed above):</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiWXncc8s31cISFY4bfTuvPSs22z6GZj-4T3AavqArXw4oGoXpJ4KyouL1UTGmRdeGjOqPFW5SmAhxh6qe9sedahBVARNau3gbCbLSpctDG5Xl42AF5EnV1vtB4nJ453og_Atte4-MD_ERfuosF32J_yGrIGNmnCyDJ3eO0Pbw1sEQEzqEXHl-Kk0Cy=s800" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="620" data-original-width="800" height="310" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiWXncc8s31cISFY4bfTuvPSs22z6GZj-4T3AavqArXw4oGoXpJ4KyouL1UTGmRdeGjOqPFW5SmAhxh6qe9sedahBVARNau3gbCbLSpctDG5Xl42AF5EnV1vtB4nJ453og_Atte4-MD_ERfuosF32J_yGrIGNmnCyDJ3eO0Pbw1sEQEzqEXHl-Kk0Cy=w400-h310" width="400" /></a></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Example of Dragon pattern cup and saucer found online: </span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://www.lavitrinedecaroline.nl/en_GB/a-60361038/japanese-showa-porcelain/antique-japanese-arita-blue-and-white-dragon-cup-with-saucer/">https://www.lavitrinedecaroline.nl/en_GB/a-60361038/japanese-showa-porcelain/antique-japanese-arita-blue-and-white-dragon-cup-with-saucer/</a></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><b id="docs-internal-guid-da6031fd-7fff-8bea-f7a5-dd8f94040a04" style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj1Y9_SU72AGPSdwgWJIFEbXkwxg8aVmRJEvHbHBjW3lZHmsbfHrixwhuynA6407jH0j0oBGeHV3oj0hK7Z_PRSKXylf8oiIEoI_hgrz8zNcl2q946wo1k__HpQVXJGa041zt1-bLubtljGLAvvBAJz-NhTF-SceC-WVmj6F2brxF26WfijMO-n1-ka=s944" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="944" data-original-width="714" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj1Y9_SU72AGPSdwgWJIFEbXkwxg8aVmRJEvHbHBjW3lZHmsbfHrixwhuynA6407jH0j0oBGeHV3oj0hK7Z_PRSKXylf8oiIEoI_hgrz8zNcl2q946wo1k__HpQVXJGa041zt1-bLubtljGLAvvBAJz-NhTF-SceC-WVmj6F2brxF26WfijMO-n1-ka=w303-h400" width="303" /></a></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Example of a hand-painted dragon on porcelain showing main features </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span><a href="https://www.pinterest.cl/pin/342344009147565398/visual-search/?x=10&y=11&w=460&h=619&cropSource=6" style="text-decoration: none;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">https://www.pinterest.cl/pin/342344009147565398/visual-search/?x=10&y=11&w=460&h=619&cropSource=6</span></a><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">. </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; text-align: left; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; text-align: left; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Japanese porcelain “Phoenix” pattern </span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">1910-1930s</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">A minimum of two saucers and three cups with the Phoenix pattern are represented by 9 porcelain </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">fragments. Variations of the Phoenix pattern (Phoenix Ware) exist, but all of them combine the Ho-o bird </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">(“Fenghuang” in Chinese), karakusa tendrils, and paulownia and chrysanthemum flowers. The Hō-ō bird </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">is not really a phoenix as Westerners know it. This is actually a mythical bird </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><b id="docs-internal-guid-aea93273-7fff-b18f-1b69-6638d247d3ca" style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">The Phoenix pattern was common for Japanese exports to North America. There are several variations </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">of the pattern, and at least two of them are found in the Horseshoe Bay collection. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhUToVW3_e8kbsS0iSL1kzBmz8jOlc3gL2nYpMfinwaFZAMmJKaGqdOR2qsd2IbginfNgbQ4RStN3YNMlvM3jFV5mwuKyAs3Ce4x9_2AcBBQdnBX6Gc7RonhpsmovX7kOmWfgsKLR8T_9QkIiLhet_loUmTZzpnzylbzWHCsw5wPuDDZv75yU6ZL_Ki=s410" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="410" data-original-width="308" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhUToVW3_e8kbsS0iSL1kzBmz8jOlc3gL2nYpMfinwaFZAMmJKaGqdOR2qsd2IbginfNgbQ4RStN3YNMlvM3jFV5mwuKyAs3Ce4x9_2AcBBQdnBX6Gc7RonhpsmovX7kOmWfgsKLR8T_9QkIiLhet_loUmTZzpnzylbzWHCsw5wPuDDZv75yU6ZL_Ki=s320" width="240" /></a></div><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">6 of the Phoenix pattern fragments found at Horseshoe Bay</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Five of the pieces are similar the pattern seen below with this edge pattern (based on the Chinese cloud</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre;"> and mountain motif):</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhPukdkd3-qCyDmwfItPBHm4OUy6NYmF1lM2F6bYnd1BV1ozS6-iEufj3kaBF15fhm2RgokipWh9OymNrOsH1J2kQTkOO3WPOVgu7IiGm_QlaO3vx17ma6_VcsIwVKPTlqRELGeS3DYEuAfCE9XSSo4EScLSQ0IA_qiLoOh1M8A8ZYE6IlKt_2bcRYB=s1050" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1020" data-original-width="1050" height="311" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhPukdkd3-qCyDmwfItPBHm4OUy6NYmF1lM2F6bYnd1BV1ozS6-iEufj3kaBF15fhm2RgokipWh9OymNrOsH1J2kQTkOO3WPOVgu7IiGm_QlaO3vx17ma6_VcsIwVKPTlqRELGeS3DYEuAfCE9XSSo4EScLSQ0IA_qiLoOh1M8A8ZYE6IlKt_2bcRYB=s320" width="320" /></a></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">The Phoenix pattern from: </span><a href="https://i.etsystatic.com/18122017/r/il/874985/2315174317/il_794xN.2315174317_jfvm.jpg" style="text-decoration: none;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">https://i.etsystatic.com/18122017/r/il/874985/2315174317/il_794xN.2315174317_jfvm.jpg</span></a></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">The other piece has an edge decoration closer to this one: </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi0fd94MG4TpYiWpIKcCEXAFdDbhs90ls18VPtfj6BVLyyAWs-nv0Qg-FUQQV2kVEPFm6JRANXyiM45oDOIpv4kBwtP7hq7q97B8G81gf-yWRwjKlCflKkcMnpnJqIZJJjDfhud8tq6tEcIVPze9pUVSiXeFhDsPMBW8Sw5P0cCQ4SFfxnBBfVnQOJi=s689" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="689" data-original-width="601" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi0fd94MG4TpYiWpIKcCEXAFdDbhs90ls18VPtfj6BVLyyAWs-nv0Qg-FUQQV2kVEPFm6JRANXyiM45oDOIpv4kBwtP7hq7q97B8G81gf-yWRwjKlCflKkcMnpnJqIZJJjDfhud8tq6tEcIVPze9pUVSiXeFhDsPMBW8Sw5P0cCQ4SFfxnBBfVnQOJi=w349-h400" width="349" /></a></div><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Found here: </span><a href="http://www.chipstone.org/imgpublications/2/13/515/Ross-25.jpg" style="text-decoration: none;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">http://www.chipstone.org/imgpublications/2/13/515/Ross-25.jpg</span></a></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Or this one: </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEilfEYd4H6G9SI6sqlI38nQkvi_RjrjuJkdqRy-A7usXc76-DJ3T_f2f_aaFWC-VbzOaLm0VEx7O4ompsffqsZ4G1XMRdKhwIwfFkWMsGNNKrxxu896pzJEePokCGrMPeEL33sqIMhtMjYSGplT7N6jbN7r1s93KMpuGa4e9AanYzIyI0Q1C92oyH0f=s640" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="427" data-original-width="640" height="268" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEilfEYd4H6G9SI6sqlI38nQkvi_RjrjuJkdqRy-A7usXc76-DJ3T_f2f_aaFWC-VbzOaLm0VEx7O4ompsffqsZ4G1XMRdKhwIwfFkWMsGNNKrxxu896pzJEePokCGrMPeEL33sqIMhtMjYSGplT7N6jbN7r1s93KMpuGa4e9AanYzIyI0Q1C92oyH0f=w400-h268" width="400" /></a></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Found here: </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span><a href="https://laurelleaffarm.com/item-pages/china-and-glassware/blue-and-white-china/vintage-tea-table-trivet-blue-white-phoenix-ware-round-china-plate-for-a-tea-kettle-Laurel-Leaf-Farm-item-no-pw709160.htm" style="text-decoration: none;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">https://laurelleaffarm.com/item-pages/china-and-glassware/blue-and-white-china/vintage-tea-table-trivet-blue-white-phoenix-ware-round-china-plate-for-a-tea-kettle-Laurel-Leaf-Farm-item-no-pw709160.htm</span></a></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">These three from Horseshoe Bay also have a Phoenix pattern similar to the image above</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjubfdPEtme6C5zfk25s0PwZ2wXrN7ifygUqt-LcjCJwbryHKHVGtnBtGnSY1CJKvEsXjrLAfiaSSM5pkVjOoW9zGCcUNaLorKW3D7P817PFwEuRGqIgY5OmLr0EvzrYp8F_5cgn9n-VNY1pZBW1CbYwls0HzhXgv-6IbSc8dDqksHnfHZGLWdCCanZ=s458" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="458" data-original-width="344" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjubfdPEtme6C5zfk25s0PwZ2wXrN7ifygUqt-LcjCJwbryHKHVGtnBtGnSY1CJKvEsXjrLAfiaSSM5pkVjOoW9zGCcUNaLorKW3D7P817PFwEuRGqIgY5OmLr0EvzrYp8F_5cgn9n-VNY1pZBW1CbYwls0HzhXgv-6IbSc8dDqksHnfHZGLWdCCanZ=w300-h400" width="300" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">One last Japanese fragment is from the spout of a teapot. It is made of heavier grey-bodied porcelain – </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">perhaps to be more sturdy, or cheaper version. The flower on the fragment appears to be a twisted lotus.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><b id="docs-internal-guid-0a76dfa2-7fff-cd57-1d31-b89d09876994" style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjJzGYtI3T4DSQJ2dbGaXpZz3lxXLubhqdrBplUq8rhU3s63l5hRHNKzlXetygqaX9YWMM3KQYjN0GNN1jsI_ocdQLa5TU25k1Bhwss_sznLaYzoSMU1aHRPk3MXBk3CN7Q_RjkcvklOILbhSr5ryiu45s54A1bO--vqmNZiHvScdx20-QOsI6qxU2U=s236" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="236" data-original-width="150" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjJzGYtI3T4DSQJ2dbGaXpZz3lxXLubhqdrBplUq8rhU3s63l5hRHNKzlXetygqaX9YWMM3KQYjN0GNN1jsI_ocdQLa5TU25k1Bhwss_sznLaYzoSMU1aHRPk3MXBk3CN7Q_RjkcvklOILbhSr5ryiu45s54A1bO--vqmNZiHvScdx20-QOsI6qxU2U=w254-h400" width="254" /></a></div><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">teapot spout fragment</span></p><div><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline;">The Blue Dragon Inn</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">None of the information above is particularly intriguing in and of itself, but in doing some historical</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">research for the report, I found a fascinating correlation. There were several Hotels at Horseshoe Bay </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">at different times. The Whytecliff Lodge, the Horseshoe Bay Hotel, were very popular and are still </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">remembered in the literature, but newspapers from 1917 into the 1920s mentioned an establishment </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">called the “Blue Dragon Inn” which I had not found in any Horseshoe Bay histories. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">The Blue Dragon Inn was owned by Mrs. J. Dalgish and Miss G. Davies from at least 1917 to 1939 </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">when it was sold the Blue Dragon Inn changed ownership and name to “The Chalet” that year </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">(The Province May 13, 1939, p.37). </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">A lady’s newspaper column in 1917 describing a day at Horseshoe Bay described the Blue Dragon Inn </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">thusly:</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 28.35pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Now I really feel that I must tell you something about this same “Blue Dragon Inn.” To begin </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 28.35pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">with do not, from the name, run away with the idea that sumptious (sic) hotel accommodation </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 28.35pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">is to be found at Whytecliff, that is not so, but what really is there is a very attractive and delightful</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 28.35pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> concern, run by two enterprising and charming young women, who go out of their way to make </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 28.35pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">visitors comfortable, and serve dainty, appetizing meals, with an accompaniment of pleasant </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 28.35pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">words and smiles; not only that, but they serve all meals at strictly reasonable prices. A limited </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 28.35pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">amount of sleeping accommodation is also provided at the Inn, in rooms or tents, as preferred, </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 28.35pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">while all meals are served at small tables on a wide verandah, so that visitors practically live </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 28.35pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">in the open, though there is a comfortable lounge with easy chairs, fireplace and books for wet </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 28.35pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">days … I can safely say that those in need of complete rest, artist, or fishermen, could with equal </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 28.35pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">advantage and profit, spend a delightful holiday there (The Standard July 7, 1917, p.3 – UBC </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 28.35pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Open Collections).</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">I suspect the name for the Hotel was based on the Oriental craze at the time which was as popular in the </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Lower Mainland as elsewhere in the Western world. By 1914, even Bowen Island had its own Japanese </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">gardens designed by a man named Koga (Little 2011:43). The 14 fragments of blue transfer-printed </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Japanese porcelain (esp. the Blue Dragon porcelain) found in this collection may have come from the </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Blue Dragon Inn. From the photographs below and from the geological forms in the background, it </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">appears that the Blue Dragon Inn was located on the SE corner of Royal Avenue and Little Bay Street - </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">exactly where the archaeological collection came from.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiYEnblGhDXlyytwN7xCSxCYRfWCkkgonGPS96dxVneHGn_0mDHFWVN-Dg6ZSOZi9uFXooWUQWnlhO9jlgNcxxPtY3vbVH6oKDNUVg12r3D0BCRFRtHBAXxxGi3X9J_-ltnsWcrW3UV5jcdoKTc9TgtFQzKpYOJAEI22gPZzOjZVxejAeXMELp4vyQ8=s444" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="302" data-original-width="444" height="435" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiYEnblGhDXlyytwN7xCSxCYRfWCkkgonGPS96dxVneHGn_0mDHFWVN-Dg6ZSOZi9uFXooWUQWnlhO9jlgNcxxPtY3vbVH6oKDNUVg12r3D0BCRFRtHBAXxxGi3X9J_-ltnsWcrW3UV5jcdoKTc9TgtFQzKpYOJAEI22gPZzOjZVxejAeXMELp4vyQ8=w640-h435" width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">“A view of Bay street in Horseshoe Bay”, West Vancouver Memorial Library 1302.WVML (Library says 1938, but </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">probably post-1939, and I believe it this was Royal Street as per photo below) <a href="https://digital.westvanlibrary.ca/2839357/data?n=4">https://digital.westvanlibrary.ca/2839357/data?n=4</a> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg3ptT4jCtLnDNFbn2LtHhkRKvbY1VYx-aSr1iw0wMKKuKGSVJ68vUJaja-FVyP4-9_c5LXoaREp5OHLs5U73A8bxlj3gXU-kMoEJOl1Y8BK0wMpTsroUISxOpEVAiSfiDmtjGGP8rCck_WcDYfvUzfDTSVCtAKfJj-aJU6ryNC2L97L5bRaykGN80A=s812" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="348" data-original-width="812" height="274" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg3ptT4jCtLnDNFbn2LtHhkRKvbY1VYx-aSr1iw0wMKKuKGSVJ68vUJaja-FVyP4-9_c5LXoaREp5OHLs5U73A8bxlj3gXU-kMoEJOl1Y8BK0wMpTsroUISxOpEVAiSfiDmtjGGP8rCck_WcDYfvUzfDTSVCtAKfJj-aJU6ryNC2L97L5bRaykGN80A=w640-h274" width="640" /></a></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">A view of Horseshoe Bay 1937 (The Chung Collection, UBC open library) I believe the large building visible on the </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">right hand side of the photograph is the Blue Dragon / Chalet building (compare to previous image) </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><a href="https://open.library.ubc.ca/search?q=%22A%20View%20of%20Horseshoe%20Bay%22" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline;">https://open.library.ubc.ca/search?q=%22A%20View%20of%20Horseshoe%20Bay%22</span></a></p></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2886737049184020992.post-81391071791369698242018-11-19T10:43:00.000-07:002021-12-02T14:01:28.380-07:00The Greatest Showman - my moment with Queen<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 20px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;">
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #999999; line-height: 20px;">It was a lazy Saturday, August 2, the day after I arrived in York, when we went shopping and took a tour of their city. I can’t quite remember the details but while we were in town, David, a huge Queen fan, bought us tickets to see the band the following weekend at Knebworth Park, Stevenage, about 30 miles north of London. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #999999; line-height: 20px;">At the time (I cringe to think of this) I really didn’t know much about Queen and didn’t really like them much. I knew and liked recent top 40 hits like “Radio Ga Ga” and “We Will Rock You”, but they were more from the 1970s and were, to me, boring and behind the times. Originally the tour was scheduled to end in Spain, but after the two shows at Wembley Stadium earlier in the summer had sold out so quickly, Knebworth was added to catch more of the British audience. No one knew that this concert would be the very last Queen concert ever – the concert every Queen fan wishes they had seen. I didn’t even realize it was the last concert of their big European tour. And (despite what the recent movie claims) certainly no one knew that Mercury had AIDS and would die only 5 years later. I got the experience that SO many Queen fans wanted – and at the time I didn’t appreciate it at all. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #999999; line-height: 20px;">We drove down from York to Knebworth Park. It’s about a 3 1/2-hour drive down to Stevenage, and since this was an outdoor concert with no assigned seating, David wanted to get there reasonably early - gates opened at 11. We left before 7:30 am. I slept most of the way there, being a teenager and being a bit sick with a cold. We arrived by 11:30 and parked - the number of cars was incredible, and the gates were quite a long ways from the parking lot. The area set up for the concert was huge – probably 4 football fields in size. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #999999; line-height: 20px;">I remember sitting on a blanket about ½ way up the field on the left hand side of the field. Food trucks and tents, as well as merchandise stands surrounded the site. I think we brought food, but I also remember buying some there. As I was sitting on that blanket, I didn’t know there were 118,000 people watching the show (that was the number at the time, some sites now say 125,000 or 200,000, but I think I’ll go with what was stated then). I didn’t know this was one of the first concerts to use big screen technology, and I didn’t know someone would be stabbed and killed after the show. I just sat there and listened to the opening acts, which were Belouis Some, Status Quo, and Big Country. With more than 60 chart hits to date, Status Quo have more in the UK than any other band. I knew none of their songs. Big Country was the one band I was a little excited about, although in truth I only knew one of their songs: “In a Big Country”. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #999999; line-height: 20px;">Stuart Adamson, the lead singer of Big Country, came on stage for an encore, took a look at the audience and told us to hold on a minute before running behind stage. He ran back on stage almost instantly with a camera and said: “no one will ever believe this” before he snapped a picture of the audience. It was the largest crowd they had played on this tour. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #999999; line-height: 20px;">After what seemed like an eternity after the opening acts, as the sun was sinking toward the horizon, the iconic Queen helicopter flew into the park with cheers from the crowd. After another eternity, Queen emerged from the smoke and the light to sing “One Vision” - we watched mainly on the huge screen above the stage because it was so far away, but I believe we also had binoculars. I got one good look at the stage, though, when a friend of David’s – a big, tall rugby-player type – lifted me up on his shoulders to see the lighters during "We Are the Champions". The thought of that memory makes me laugh a bit. I have had an interesting life! Queen played everyone’s favourite songs right to the end with “We Are the Champions” and “God Save the Queen”. I recognized a few of the more recent ones. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #999999; line-height: 20px;">The walk to the car took at least 45 minutes. We decided there was no use trying to leave the parking lot, so we all crashed in the car for a few hours. We eventually got the car moving around 4 am and arrived home 24 hours after we left – at 7:30 am on the 10<sup>th</sup>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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While I was lying in bed this morning, though, as almost always happens after a good night's sleep, I feel better. The cat is on my chest and throat, licking the side of my face and chewing on my ear. Snuffing into my ear in such a lovely, intimate way. He trusts me. He loves me. He wants breakfast. And life is okay. In the morning it is okay.<br />
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So why am I here? What is that passion that I need to follow? I have a drive to find and maintain connections to the past. Always have felt that way - ask one of my closest childhood friends - she got sick and tired of hearing about history. She just wasn't interested. But I was, so that is what I do, I connect to the past - mostly to try and understand the present. And when I forget about that passion, something almost always smacks me across the head to remind me ... sometimes it's in the laundry room ...<br />
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This is just a clothes-drying rack. It might look a little old fashioned. If you looked really closely, you'd see some tape on a bottom rung. Some form of fabric tape hat my mother or father possibly put on there because they used to use this. And before that, I'm sure my grandmother used it. But it was first used by my Great-Grandmother, Emily Chamberlaine. She bought it in Armstrong at Shepherd's Hardware (as my father remembers - he remembers a lot of little details) - sometime after 1925, but I'm not sure when. I know she bought it, because on the side, very faded now, written in pencil, is: "Sold Paid Mrs. Chamberlaine".<br />
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It's a little thing. Just a very quick note written maybe 60-75 years ago to hold this item at a hardware store. But it means the world to me. And every time I pay attention, I am reminded of where I come from and what I'm doing here. </div>
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Last night it was this: "I am allowed to be mad. And I don't have to check with other people to see if the situation warrants it". I don't have to justify it. I also don't have to express it, but I do have to process it.<br />
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We, as girls, are taught by our society (through our peers) that it is not nice to know a lot. I have a reasonably high IQ - which may mean nothing, but it is the only standard measurement we have. Mine stands hovering around 132 (just tried a free online one and it says 141 - but they are notoriously high). <br />
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When I was an elementary school student I was a bit of a know-it-all. I've talked about this before. I was kind of like Hermione Granger. I knew stuff that other people didn't and I understood things more quickly. And even when I was wrong, I still thought I was right. This tends to piss people off.<br />
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So, in an attempt to have everyone (or at least some) people like me, I tried not to piss people off, and, in turn I tried to not get mad at them. Because there's no faster way to get someone mad at you than to be mad at them. But if I did get mad at someone, I tried not to. I tried not to express it. I tried not to be obnoxious. I tried not to feel it. And I would always try to get others' opinions on whether I was justified to be angry. The only exception to this was my sister - she got the brunt of my pent-up anger. Sorry, Sis!<br />
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I still do this. If I get mad at someone, I want to know if the situation warrants it. I ask other people. I want to know if I'm reacting properly (also has something to do with misperceptions caused by depression and anxiety). And I try to deny it - tending to believe that it is my mood disorder that is causing me to be angry, not the actual situation (which, sometimes, it is).<br />
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Well, you know what? I do not need to ask other people if I'm allowed to feel angry. I am. It's a natural emotion and I'm allowed to experience it. I'm allowed to process it. I don't necessarily need to express it, but I need to allow it.<br />
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Almost 50 years on the planet and still learning - that's what this life shit is all about.<br />
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BTW - while I am writing this, flowers and a hug arrive at my door - an unspoken apology and forgiveness. Life is always interesting.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2886737049184020992.post-65917150985985107032015-03-07T09:17:00.001-07:002015-03-11T08:28:11.355-06:00Irene - the Glamazon meets Mickey on her 90th birthday<br />
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In the process of doing this research, I learned about and got to talk to a fascinating woman, Irene Jewell. I wrote about her very briefly in <a href="http://sandiratch.blogspot.ca/2015/01/ricki-covette.html" target="_blank">this earlier blog post</a>. When I started the research, I only knew that Irene was a burlesque dancer who was born in Alberta and who performed at the 1959 Calgary Stampede. She was rather famous due to her height of 6 feet 8 inches. But I've learned more ...<br />
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Irene Jewell was born Irene Siewert on February 26, 1925 in Alberta - on a homestead north of Edmonton. She graduated high school in Sangudo. Her parents were not short, but she far outgrew them, continuing to grow well into her 20s. As a girl she wanted to be a singer and dancer, but didn't have access to the training she would require. So she became Ricki Covette - "The Glamazon" - the world's tallest burlesque dancer:<br />
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After the world's first sex-change operation happened in 1957, people started to accuse Irene of being a man - this was too much for her and she left burlesque to become a real estate agent. After some time, she told me, she also worked as a bookkeeper to a man named <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Mitchell" target="_blank">Chuck Mitchell</a> - who played the title role in the movie "Porky's". She worked for him, I believe, until he died - she mentioned having to put him into several retirement homes before he found one that would stand for his unique crassness.</div>
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At some point (I'm not quite sure when), she met Stuart Jewell. Stuart was a cinematographer who worked for 7 years for Walt Disney. He worked several Disney films including the Oscar-winner <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046008/" target="_blank">"The Living Desert" (1953)</a>. He also worked on creating time-lapse photography - being at least one of the cinematographers responsible for the t<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rItAd9FuIDo" target="_blank">ime-lapse footage of Disneyland being built</a>. They travelled around the world continuing with his photography, but he was no longer working for Disney and nature movies were going out of favour.<br />
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When I started doing this research, I told a friend of mine (who happens to do Burlesque in Calgary currently) about Ricki Covette. She was fascinated and wanted to know more. The following day, she told me about <a href="http://www.dailypilot.com/entertainment/tn-dpt-me-1228-ricki-covette-20141226,0,6376531.story" target="_blank">this article</a> she had found about Irene - and that she was still alive. The article was talking generally about her life, but also about the fact that she had donated some of her possessions to the Smithsonian Museum.<br />
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So I Googled and found an address I thought might work and I sent Irene a letter explaining the research I was doing. I thought nothing more of it. These things don't always work, and I'd done my part of contact her, if she didn't get back to me, that would be the end of it. But a couple of weeks later I got a phone call from Irene. And we chatted for quite a while. She told me about Stuart and her life, burlesque, real estate, Chuck ... and how she is still concerned about keeping her weight down (!). And then I asked her where Costa Mesa, CA (where she lives) is located. And she mentioned it was in Orange County.<br />
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Well, my family has a bit of an addiction to Disneyland, and it's in Orange County, so as a point of reference, I mentioned it and asked if she liked Disneyland. Well, she had never been there!! She said she had an opening day ticket from Disneyland (not really sure if it's quite that old, but maybe) and that she was going to take it there on her 90th birthday (about a month later) and see if they would let her in. <br />
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Our conversation ended and I mulled over all of the information I had just received. What a fascinating woman - and what an adventure she had lived. Even at almost 90 years old, she was still as lively as ever. She had a nurse and a "wonderful boyfriend" and seemed to still be living a very full life. Someone to aspire to - if I live that long, I hope I am in the shape she is in!<br />
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Later that day, a bolt of lightning hit me (you know those thoughts that are just too brilliant to have come from your own mind? - yeah, one of those). My husband had recently hired Doug Lipp of <a href="http://www.douglipp.com/" target="_blank">G. Douglas Lipp and Associates</a> to come to Edmonton and do some training with some employees here. My hubby had also been to the <a href="https://disneyinstitute.com/" target="_blank">Disney Institute</a> to take similar training a few years ago. He knew people associated with Disney!! So I asked him to send out an e-mail to a couple of people and see if anyone would be interested in asking if Irene could get in and maybe they could use it for some publicity.<br />
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Well, Doug Lipp's wife, Pam, took the bull by the horns and got in touch with the people she knows at Disneyland. Nothing happened for a couple of weeks. I sent her several e-mails pestering to see if Irene was going to get to go to Disneyland. I was a little obsessed - but so was Pam. And Pam came through - she arranged for a friend of hers, Joanne, who was the 1982 Disneyland Ambassador and who has a silver pass to the park to take Irene! It was going to happen. <br />
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About a week away from Irene's 90th birthday, The Disneyland Public Relations and Fan Club Departments got involved, set up tickets for everyone (so Joanne didn't have to use hers) and an interview (with Erin Glover) and photo shoot.<br />
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So on Thursday, February 26th, Irene Jewell's 90th birthday, Pam Lipp (who bought a plane ticket to get down there), Joanne Duner, Irene, and her wonderful boyfriend (I think - still haven't confirmed that -it's either her beau or her nurse, but it looks like her beau) spent a beautiful sunny day at Disneyland. They enjoyed Great Moments with Mr. Lincoln, It's a Small World, Pirates of the Caribbean, and the Haunted Mansion attractions. The Dapper Dans even sang her Happy Birthday:<br />
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Irene ... I hope you had a wonderful day with some great memories. And I hope you get to go back again sometime.<br />
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Irene in the shade out front.</div>
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The photographer grabbing one of her in the sun with her shades.</div>
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Riding "It's a Small World" (I haven't found out what other attractions they went on).</div>
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The gang watching the Tea Cups - this one they didn't ride.</div>
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HAPPY 90TH BIRTHDAY, IRENE!</div>
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<b>Please check out my postcard series starting <a href="http://sandiratch.blogspot.ca/2014/06/postcards.html" target="_blank">here</a>.</b></div>
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I am in the midst of reading a book (well, many books, but I'm talking about this one) called <em><u>Consciousness Beyond Life</u></em> by Pim Van Lommel. It is a book written by an MD about the evidence for existence beyond the physical form. I like these kinds of books.<br />
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Growing up, I was raised in a non-religious household with parents who were very open to Science. I'm grateful for that. I was raised with an open slate as far as spirituality was concerned. They encouraged us to follow our own curiosity and beliefs - neither encouraging nor discouraging us in any particular spiritual direction. This has helped shape me greatly.<br />
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The one thing that this type of upbringing brought out in me, however, was a fear of dying. I had no religious belief to help guide me with regards to death. That's okay now, because I have done a lot of reading and soul searching, and have come to my own understanding of all of this. My point is that it drives me to read books like <em><u>Consciousness Beyond Life</u></em>.<br />
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In the book, the author relates stories from people who have had near death experiences (NDEs). Most people have a heavenly experience where they see a light or light beings, but of the research done, they find that about 1 to 2 percent of NDE-ers have a hellish experience. <br />
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One person with a hellish experience goes into detail about what he experienced. He was young at the time (21 years old) and was a medical student. His description is long and sounds like a typical Christian hell, but within it he says: "Whatever anyone thought, however fleetingly or unwillingly, was instantly apparent to all around him, more completely than words could have expressed it ... What was it going to be like, I thought with sudden panic, to live forever where my most private thoughts were not private at all? No disguising them, no covering them up, no way to pretend I was anything but what I actually was. How unbearable ..."<br />
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In the margins of the book, I wrote: "How tragic to feel that way".<br />
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I try to be honest - with other people unless it's going to hurt their feelings, but with myself at all times. I know I'm not perfect with it, and wisdom and age make it easier. But I can't imagine living in a way where you were that ashamed of who you were. <br />
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How terribly, terribly sad. To me, that would be hell here on Earth.<br />
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