Drinking - Glass Bottles & Decanters

18th Century Material Culture Bottles, Cases, & Tickets

English Wine Bottles

Dating English Wine Bottles by Shape (Colonial Williamsburg)

English Wine Bottle c. 1650 (Museum of London)

English Wine Bottle with Seal “TBD” c. 1650 (Museum of London)

English Wine Bottle with Coat of Arms Seal c. 1660 - 1670 (Woolley & Wallis)

English Wine Bottle c. 1685 - 1700 (Winterthur)

English Wine Bottle Etched “S H” c. 1690 - 1730 (Winterthur)

English Wine Bottle c. 1695 - 1710 (Winterthur)

English Wine Bottle with Seal “WRE 1699” for Richard & Elizabeth Walker, Keepers of the King’s Head Tavern, Oxford 1699 (Woolley & Wallis)

English Wine Bottle with Seal “WRE 1699” for Richard & Elizabeth Walker, Keepers of the King’s Head Tavern, Oxford 1699 (Woolley & Wallis)

English Wine Bottle with Seal “LTE 1703” 1703 (Private Collection)

English Wine Bottle with Seal “LTE 1703” 1703 (Private Collection)

English Wine Bottle with Seal “ W: de Lisle 1708 “ 1708 (Woolley & Wallis)

English Wine Bottle with Seal “ W: de Lisle 1708 “ 1708 (Woolley & Wallis)

English Wine Bottle with Seal “RXN 1709” 1709 (Woolley & Wallis)

English Wine Bottle with Seal “RXN 1709” 1709 (Woolley & Wallis)

English Wine Bottle c. 1711 - 1730 (Museum of London)

English Wine Bottle with Coat of Arms Seal c. 1711 - 1730 (Museum of London)

English Wine Bottle with Coat of Arms Seal c. 1711 - 1730 (Museum of London)

English Wine Bottle with Seal “Benj. Fredenham / Marzarion / 1717” 1717 (Brunk Auctions)

English Wine Bottle with Seal “Benj. Fredenham / Marzarion / 1717” 1717 (Brunk Auctions)

English Wine Bottle with Griffin Seal Early 18th Century (Woolley & Wallis)

English Wine Bottle with Seal “Cs Croon Woodbroug 1719” 1719 (Winterthur)

English Wine Bottle with Seal “Cs Croon Woodbroug 1719” 1719 (Winterthur)

English Wine Bottle with Seal “I Wells 1724” 1724 (Woolley & Wallis)

English Wine Bottle with Seal “TS 1725” 1725 (Private Collection)

English Wine Bottle with Seal “TS 1725” 1725 (Private Collection)

English Wine Bottle with Seal “Iohn DePeyster 1726” 1726 (Winterthur)

English Wine Bottle with Seal “Iohn DePeyster 1726” 1726 (Winterthur)

English Wine Bottle with Seal “R. GREENE 1728” from Bristol 1728 (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)

English Wine Bottle with Seal “R. GREENE 1728” from Bristol 1728 (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)

English Wine Bottle c. 1730 (Woolley & Wallis)

English Wine Bottle c. 1730 (Woolley & Wallis)

English Wine Bottle c. 1730 (Woolley & Wallis)

English Wine Bottle with Seal “I Howell 1731“ 1731 (Woolley & Wallis)

English Wine Bottle with Seal “Roger Oxenham 1731” 1731 (Museum of London)

English Wine Bottle with Seal c. 1735 - 1745 (Woolley & Wallis)

English Wine Bottle with Seal c. 1735 - 1745 (Woolley & Wallis)

English Wine Bottle with Seal “Modtonham 1737” 1737 (Skinner)

English Wine Bottle with Seal “Modtonham 1737” 1737 (Skinner)

English Wine Bottle c. 1741 - 1761 (Museum of London)

English Wine Bottle Inscribed “W Gidas April 1748” c. 1748 (Winterthur)

English Wine Bottle Inscribed “W Gidas April 1748” c. 1748 (Winterthur)

English Wine Bottle with Seal “I. GREENE 1749” - For Joseph Green of Boston who lived on Hanover Street 1749 (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)

English Wine Bottle with Seal “I. GREENE 1749” - For Joseph Green of Boston who lived on Hanover Street 1749 (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)

English Wine Bottle with Seal “ S Samway 1751“ & Handle 1731 (Woolley & Wallis)

English Wine Bottle with Seal “ S Samway 1751“ & Handle 1731 (Woolley & Wallis)

English Wine Bottle with Seal “HPA“ Mid 18th Century (Woolley & Wallis)

English Wine Bottle with Seal “HPA“ Mid 18th Century (Woolley & Wallis)

Large English Wine Bottle with Seal “H. / Littledale / 1762,” 1762 (Skinner)

Large English Wine Bottle with Seal “H. / Littledale / 1762,” 1762 (Skinner)

English Wine Bottle with Seal “All Souls College 1764” 1764 (Bonhams)

English Wine Bottle with Seal “Sidney Breese 1765” 1765 (Winterthur)

English Wine Bottles with Seal “WCG / Zeal” for William Chafyn Grove (1731-1793) of Zeals House, Wiltshire c. 1770 (Woolley & Wallis)

English Wine Bottles with Seals for George Bickford of Dunsland House, near Holsworthy in Devon c. 1770 - 1790 (Woolley & Wallis)

English Wine Bottles with Seals “T Chard 1773” 1773 (Woolley & Wallis)

English Wine Bottle with Seal “Rolle 1774” 1774 (Winterthur)

Richd./Lidstone/S. Huish/1775

English 2 Quart Wine Bottle with Seal “Richd. / Lidstone / S. Huish / 1775” 1775 (Skinner)

English 2 Quart Wine Bottle with Seal “Richd. / Lidstone / S. Huish / 1775” 1775 (Skinner)

English Wine Bottle Recovered from a New York City British Campsite c. 1776 - 1783 (New York Historical Society)

Wine Bottle Excavated from Grand Portage (Minnesota) 18th Century (Grand Portage)

Examples of English “Porter” Style Bottles Mid 18th Century (Estate of Tom Wnuck)

English Wine Bottle with Seal “HH 1785” 1785 (Skinner)

English Wine Bottle with Seal “HH 1785” 1785 (Skinner)

English Wine Bottle with Seal “M T. Mead 1788” 1788 (Woolley & Wallis)

English Wine Bottles with Seals “I. Feathers 1789” 1789 (Woolley & Wallis)

Wine Bottle with Seals “IG” 18th Century (Skinner)

English Wine Bottle with Seal “HC” Late 18th Century (Skinner)

English Wine Bottle with Seal “HC” Late 18th Century (Skinner)

Bottles Recovered from the H.M.S. “Betsy” Scuttled during the Siege of Yorktown, Virginia 1781

Bottles Recovered from the H.M.S. “Betsy” Scuttled during the Siege of Yorktown, Virginia 1781

Bottles Recovered from the H.M.S. Swift which Sunk in the Harbour of Puerto Desire, 1770 (Now known as Puerto Deseado, in Patagonia, Argentina) Note the Pickle Jars

American Wine Bottles

American Wine Bottle with Seal “Wm SAVERY 1752” From the Wistarburgh Glass Works of Alloway, New Jersey (Philadelphia Museum of Art)

American Wine Bottle with Seal “Wm SAVERY 1752” From the Wistarburgh Glass Works of Alloway, New Jersey (Philadelphia Museum of Art)

English or American Wine Bottle with Seal “Moses Gill 1772” Portrait of Moses Gill of Massachusetts by John Singleton Copley 1764 (Rhode Island School of Design)

American Wine Bottle with Seal “PS” from New York - For Peter Stuyvesant II Possibly by the Wistarberg Glass Works of Alloway, New Jersey c. 1765 - 1772 (HistoricalGlass.com)

American Wine Bottle with Seal “PS” from New York - For Peter Stuyvesant II Possibly by the Wistarberg Glass Works of Alloway, New Jersey c. 1765 - 1772 (HistoricalGlass.com)

English or American Wine Bottle with Seal “S Colton 1767” - For Samuel Colton, Merchant from Longmeadow, Massachusetts 1767 (Private Collection)

English or American Wine Bottle with Seal “S Colton 1767” - For Samuel Colton, Merchant from Longmeadow, Massachusetts 1767 (Private Collection)

English or American Wine Bottle with Seal “S Colton 1767” - For Samuel Colton, Merchant from Longmeadow, Massachusetts 1767 (Private Collection)

American Wine Bottle with Seal “Isaac Beers 1774” Owned by Isaac Beers, Proprietor of the Beers Tavern in New Haven, Connecticut (Corner of College & Chapel Streets 1760 - 1778) Possibly Made by Samuel Bayard & Co. New York 1774 (Skinner)

American Wine Bottle with Seal “Isaac Beers 1774” Owned by Isaac Beers, Proprietor of the Beers Tavern in New Haven, Connecticut (Corner of College & Chapel Streets 1760 - 1778) Possibly Made by Samuel Bayard & Co. New York 1774 (Skinner)

Glass Bottle Seals for John Carnes, Boston Pewterer Late 18th Century (City of Boston Archeology Program)

Wine bottle found in the late 18th-century privy of Augustin Raillion under the African Meeting House on Beacon Hill, Boston (City of Boston Archeology Program)

Mold Form Bottles

Swedish Faceted Mold Form Bottle 1747 (Kulturen)

English Faceted Mold Form Bottle with Seal “R S 1739” 1739 (Winterthur)

English Faceted Mold Form Bottle with Seal “Henry Lyte 1760” 1760 (Museum of London)

English Faceted Mold Form Bottle Mid - Late 18th Century (Woolley & Wallis)

Faceted Spirit Bottle bearing the Seal of Jonathan Grenhow of Williamsburg, Virginia 1770 (Winterthur - Neal Hurst Photograph)

Faceted Spirit or Utilitarian Bottles Bearing the Seal of Isaac Royall of Medford, Massachusetts Mid 18th Century (Isaac Royall House & Slave Quarters)

Faceted Spirit or Utilitarian Bottle Bearing the Seal of Isaac Royall of Medford, Massachusetts Mid 18th Century (Isaac Royall House & Slave Quarters)

The Seal of “Isaac Royalle” of Medford, Massachusetts Mid 18th Century (Isaac Royall House & Slave Quarters)

Case Bottles

English Case Bottle with Seal “LONDON” c. 1701 - 1799 (Museum of London)

English Case Bottle with Seal “LONDON” c. 1701 - 1799 (Museum of London)

Mold Form Case Bottles Mid 18th Century (Estate of Tom Wnuck)

Case Bottle Recovered from the Continental Army Camp Near Cooch’s Bridge, Newark, Delaware c. 1775 (Winterthur)

Dutch Case Bottle 18th Century (Jeffrey Tillou Antiques)

Dutch Case Bottle 18th Century (Crocker Farm)

Dutch Case Bottle 18th Century (Crocker Farm)

Dutch Case Bottle 18th Century (Crocker Farm)

American or European Case Bottle with Indented Sides 18th Century (Historical Glass.com)

European Spirit or Utilitarian Bottle Mid 18th Century (Private Collection)

Aqua Case Bottle, Possibly French from the 1765 - 1775 Privy of the Three Cranes Tavern, Charlestown, Massachusetts c. 1760 ? (City of Boston Archeology Program)

Pine Liquor Box with Divided Interior for Case Bottles 18th Century (Private Collection)

Pine Liquor Box with Divided Interior for Case Bottles 18th Century (Private Collection)

Pine Liquor Box with Divided Interior for Case Bottles 18th Century (Stanton Auctions)

American Liquor Box with Divided Interior for Case Bottles in Green Paint from Boston, Massacusetts 18th Century (John McInnis)

Pine Liquor Box with Divided Interior & 12 Case Bottles 18th Century (Historical Glass)

Pine Liquor Box with Divided Interior & 12 Case Bottles 18th Century (Historical Glass)

Pine Liquor Box with Divided Interior for Case Bottles 18th Century (Private Collection)

Pine Liquor Box with Divided Interior for Case Bottles 18th Century (Private Collection)

Pine Liquor Box with Divided Interior for Case Bottles 18th Century (Carlsen Auctions)

Dutch Pine Liquor Box with Divided Interior for 12 Case Bottles 18th Century (Crocker Farm)

Dutch Pine Liquor Box with Divided Interior for 12 Case Bottles 18th Century (Crocker Farm)

Dutch Pine Liquor Box with Divided Interior for 12 Case Bottles 18th Century (Crocker Farm)

Dutch Pine Liquor Box with Divided Interior for 12 Case Bottles 18th Century (Crocker Farm)

Dutch Pine Liquor Box with Divided Interior for 12 Case Bottles 18th Century (Crocker Farm)

Pine Liquor Box with Divided Interior for Case Bottles Late 18th Century (Neal auctions)

Bottle Baskets

American Wicker Basket Used for Carrying Bottles - Reported to Have Been Owned by Nathan Hale of Connecticut c. 1760 - 1775 (Connecticut Historical Society)

American Wicker Basket Used for Carrying Bottles - Reported to Have Been Owned by Nathan Hale of Connecticut c. 1760 - 1775 (Connecticut Historical Society)

Glass “Witch” Bottles

The Essington Witch Bottle Governor Pintz Park Excavation, Pennsylvania (Becker, Marshall J., University of Pennsylvania, “An Update on Colonial Witch Bottles”

The Essington Witch Bottle Governor Pintz Park Excavation, Pennsylvania (Becker, Marshall J., University of Pennsylvania, “An Update on Colonial Witch Bottles”

Pewter Bottles

Pewter Bottle, John Emes Jr., Pewterer from the Wreck of the English Slave Ship, Henrietta Marie, who Sunk in 1700

Corks

Bottle Corks Recovered from the Reynolds Tavern of Annapolis, Maryland c. 1712 (Banneker-Douglass Museum and Archaeology, Annapolis / University of Maryland)

“Bouchonnier” Featured in the Encyclopedia of Diderot and d'Alembert c. 1751 - 1772 (Private Collection)

“Bouchonnier” Featured in the Encyclopedia of Diderot and d'Alembert c. 1751 - 1772 (Private Collection)

“Bouchonnier” Featured in the Encyclopedia of Diderot and d'Alembert c. 1751 - 1772 (Private Collection)

Bottle Neck Retaining Its Wire Secured Cork From the Wreck of the Machault Sunk in the 1760 Battle of Restigouche in the Bay of Gaspé in Quebec Province c. 1755 - 1760 (Parks Canada)

Shelf / Bin Labels

English Tin Glazed Earthenware Bin Labels c. 1760 - 1800 (Woolley & Wallis)

English Tin Glazed Earthenware Bin Labels c. 1760 - 1800 (Woolley & Wallis)

English Tin Glazed Earthenware Bin Labels c. 1760 - 1800 (Woolley & Wallis)

English Tin Glazed Earthenware Bin Label c. 1760 - 1800 (Woolley & Wallis)

English Tin Glazed Earthenware “BRANDY” Bin Label from Mortlake c, 1760 - 1800 (Private Collection)

English Tin Glazed Earthenware “RHENISH” Bin Label from Mortlake c, 1760 - 1800 (Victoria & Albert)

English Tin Glazed Earthenware “GENEVA” Bin Label from Lambeth c, 1765 - 1775 (Victoria & Albert)

Bottle Tickets “Labels for Bottles”

Portrait of a Gentleman by Stephen Slaughter

English Tin Glazed Earthenware Bottle Ticket on Chain from London 18th Century (Woolley & Wallis)

Orphan Identification “ALE” Bottle Ticket or Label Left at the Foundling Hospital of London c. 1760 (Foundling Hospital - Threads of Feeling)

English Silver “RUM” Bottle Ticket or Label Mid 18th Century (Private Collection)

English “HOCK” Silver Bottle Ticket or Wine Label by Sandilands Drinkwater of London c. 1750 (Colonial Williamsburg)

English “MADEIRA” Silver Bottle Ticket or Wine Label c. 1750 (Colonial Williamsburg)

English “MADEIRA” Silver Bottle Ticket or Wine Label by James Phipps I c. 1780 (Colonial Williamsburg)

English “MADEIRA” Silver Bottle Ticket or Wine Label Possibly by Benjamin Bickerton of London c. 1775 (Colonial Williamsburg)

English “WHITE - WINE” Silver Bottle Ticket or Wine Label Possibly by W. Cunningham c. 1770 (Victoria & Albert)

English Enameled Copper “SHRUB” Bottle Ticket or Wine Label c. 1770 (Victoria & Albert)

Possibly American “CLARET” Bottle Ticket or Wine Label c. 1780 - 1800 (Winterthur)

Possibly American “TENERIFFE” Bottle Ticket or Wine Label Owned by John Brown of Providence, Rhode Island c. 1780 - 1800 (Winterthur)

English Silver “SAUTERNE” Bottle Ticket or Wine Label Hester Bateman, London c. 1775 (Private Collection)

London, England, “SACK” Silver Wine Label by Robert Hennell c. 1775 (Victoria & Albert)

London, English Silver “LISBON” Bottle Ticket or Wine Label by Hester Bateman c. 1780 (Victoria & Albert)

London, England, “CALCAVELLA” Silver Bottle Ticket or Wine Label by Hester Bateman c. 1780 (Victoria & Albert)

English Silver “SHRUB” Bottle Ticket or Wine Label by Elizabeth Morley c. 1794 (Victoria & Albert)

English Tin Glazed Earthenware Herculaneum Creamware Bottle Plaques Late 18th Century (Woolley & Wallis)

Coasters

Scratch Blue Staffordshire Wine Coaster / Slide / or Stand c. 1755 - 1775 (Winterthur)

Cellarettes

Cellarette or Bottle Chest on Stand Northampton County, North Carolina c. 1755 - 1770 (Winterthur)

Cellarette or Bottle Chest on Stand Northampton County, North Carolina c. 1755 - 1770 (Winterthur)

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