Steve Van Wormer Speaks About
Historic Bottles, Jars and Cans
At Home in Chula Vista
November 10, 2004 & November 9, 2006
On November 10, the ANTH 225
Historical Archaeology class took a field trip to the home of Steve Van Wormer
and Susan Walter. There, Steve did a very
interesting presentation for the students.
They were able to see a wide array of historic bottle, jar and can types that
Steve could not have brought for a presentation at Palomar
College. The following sets of photos cover much of
what took place that evening, including a discussion of the history of bottle,
jar and can
manufacturing techniques, historic bottle types with information on form, color
and function, as well as information on reference books used to
identify and date historic bottles.
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Useful Bottle
Reference Books Part I Part II Part III |
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| Historic Cans | |
| EXAMPLES OF HISTORIC BOTTLES and JARS | |
| Part I | Hand blown bottle with pontil mark; paddle rolled hand blown bottle; generic "junk" bottles of the 19th century |
| Part II | Hand Applied Bottle Lip; Jamestown Hand Blown Bottle Replica with Seal; 2-Piece Bottom Hinged Mold Used Pre-1885/1890; Warner's Honey & Liver Cure Bottle |
| Part III | 3-Part Mold Bottle; Semi-Automatic Bottle Machine (SABM) Lip Seam |
| Part IV | Molded Gin Bottles with Hand-Added Neck and Lips; Bottle Form and Function Part I; Examples of Bottle Reuse |
| Part V | Embossed Bottles; Bromo Selzer Bottles w/ & w/o Embossing |
| Part VI | Qualitee Dairy Bottle with Production Date on Lip; Milk Bottles with Applied Color Labels; Aqua Rectangular Medicine Bottle with Recessed Body (Dr. King's....); Whiskey and Cognac Bottles with Applied Paper Labels |
| Part VII | Bottle Form and Function Part II -- medicine, olives, flavor extracts, and olive oil; shoe polish and ink bottles. Soda Bottles with Blob Top and with Internal Marble Stopper |
| Part VIII | Examples of Various Medicine Bottles |
| Part IX | Mason Jars; Jar with Beaded Seal on Neck; Putnam Bail Closure for Jars; Putnam Bail Closure Adapted to Bottles |
| Part X | Mason Jars; Jar with Beaded Seal on Neck; Ball Mason Jar with Zinc Twist On Cap; Top View of Zinc Cap |
| Part XI | Paper Labels: ABC Beer; Cabinet Whiskey; Dr. Caldwell's Sienna Laxative; Hood's Sarsaparilla, Gentian and Bitter Orange. Spray Painted Milk Bottle Label |
| Part XII | Close-up of Putnam's "lightning stopper" for Bottles; Different Types of Caps on Catsup Bottles; Patent Medicine and Prescription Bottles with Graduations |