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 Marked “TBD”
c. 1650
(Museum of London)
 English Wine Bottle
c. 1650 - 1690
(Antique Associates of West Townsend)
 English Wine Bottle
c. 1650 - 1690
(Antique Associates of West Townsend)
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. 1690
(Antique Associates of West Townsend)
English Wine Bottle
c. 1695 - 1710
(Winterthur)
 English Wine Bottle with Seal Marked “WRE 1699”
For Richard & Elizabeth Walker, Keepers of the King’s Head Tavern, Oxford 1699
(Woolley & Wallis)
 English Wine Bottle with Seal Marked “WRE 1699”
For Richard & Elizabeth Walker, Keepers of the King’s Head Tavern, Oxford 1699
(Woolley & Wallis)
English Wine Bottle with Seal Marked “LTE 1703”
1703
(Private Collection)
English Wine Bottle with Seal Marked “LTE 1703”
1703
(Private Collection)
English Wine Bottle with Seal Marked “W: de Lisle 1708 “
1708
(Woolley & Wallis)
English Wine Bottle with Seal Marked “W: de Lisle 1708 “
1708
(Woolley & Wallis)
English Wine Bottle with Seal Marked “RXN 1709”
1709
(Woolley & Wallis)
English Wine Bottle with Seal Marked “RXN 1709”
1709
(Woolley & Wallis)
English Wine Bottle with Seal Marked for the Coat of Arms of Carew, Cornwall
c. 1710
(Antique Associates of West Townsend)
English Wine Bottle with Seal Marked for the Coat of Arms of Carew, Cornwall
c. 1710
(Antique Associates of West Townsend)
 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 Half Wine Bottle
c. 1715
(Antique Associates of West Townsend)
English Wine Bottle with Seal Marked “Benj. Fredenham / Marzarion / 1717”
1717
(Brunk Auctions)
English Wine Bottle with Seal Marked “Benj. Fredenham / Marzarion / 1717”
1717
(Brunk Auctions)
English Wine Bottle with Griffin Seal
Early 18th Century
(Woolley & Wallis)
English Wine Bottle with Seal Marked “Cs Croon Woodbroug 1719”
1719
(Winterthur)
English Wine Bottle with Seal Marked “Cs Croon Woodbroug 1719”
1719
(Winterthur)
English Wine Bottle with Seal Marked “I Wells 1724”
1724
(Woolley & Wallis)
English Wine Bottle with Seal Marked “TS 1725”
1725
(Private Collection)
English Wine Bottle with Seal Marked “TS 1725”
1725
(Private Collection)
 English Wine Bottle with Rooster Seal
c. 1725 - 1735
(Antique Associates of West Townsend)
 English Wine Bottle with Rooster Seal
c. 1725 - 1735
(Antique Associates of West Townsend)
English Wine Bottle with Seal Marked “Iohn DePeyster 1726”
1726
(Winterthur)
English Wine Bottle with Seal Marked “Iohn DePeyster 1726”
1726
(Winterthur)
English Wine Bottle with Seal Marked “Samuel Smith 1731”
c. 1731
(Antique Associates of West Townsend)
English Wine Bottle with Seal Marked “Samuel Smith 1731”
c. 1731
(Antique Associates of West Townsend)
English Wine Bottle with Seal Marked “R. GREENE 1728” from Bristol
1728
(Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)
English Wine Bottle with Seal Marked “R. GREENE 1728” from Bristol
1728
(Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)
English Wine Bottle with Coat of Arms Seal
c. 1730
(Antique Associates of West Townsend)
English Wine Bottle with Coat of Arms Seal
c. 1730
(Antique Associates of West Townsend)
English Wine Bottle with Seal Marked “Henry Dunning 1732”
1732
(Antique Associates of West Townsend)
English Wine Bottle with Seal Marked “Kirktown 1734”
1734
(Antique Associates of West Townsend)
English Wine Bottle with Seal Marked “Kirktown 1734”
1734
(Antique Associates of West Townsend)
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 Marked “I Howell 1731“
1731
(Woolley & Wallis)
English Wine Bottle with Seal Marked “Roger Oxenham 1731”
1731
(Museum of London)
English Wine Bottle with Coat of Arms Seal
c. 1735 - 1745
(Woolley & Wallis)
English Wine Bottle with Coat of Arms Seal
c. 1735 - 1745
(Woolley & Wallis)
English Wine Bottle with Seal Marked “Modtonham 1737”
1737
(Skinner)
English Wine Bottle with Seal Marked “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 Marked “I. GREENE 1749”
For Joseph Green of Boston who lived on Hanover Street 1749
(Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)
 English Wine Bottle with Seal Marked “I. GREENE 1749”
For Joseph Green of Boston who lived on Hanover Street 1749
(Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)
English Wine Bottle with Seal Marked “S Samway 1751“ & Handle
1731
(Woolley & Wallis)
English Wine Bottle with Seal Marked “S Samway 1751“ & Handle
1731
(Woolley & Wallis)
English Wine Bottle with Seal Marked “HPA“
Mid 18th Century
(Woolley & Wallis)
English Wine Bottle with Seal Marked “HPA“
Mid 18th Century
(Woolley & Wallis)
Large English Wine Bottle with Seal Marked “H. / Littledale / 1762,”
1762
(Skinner)
Large English Wine Bottle with Seal Marked “H. / Littledale / 1762,”
1762
(Skinner)
English Wine Bottle with Seal Marked “All Souls College 1764”
1764
(Bonhams)
Bottle Seal of Daniel Parke Custis, Martha Washington's First Husband. Custis died on July 8, 1757 in New Kent County
Found in the South Grove, Mount Vernon
(Historic Preservation of Mount Vernon)
English Wine Bottle with Seal Marked “Sidney Breese 1765”
1765
(Winterthur)
 English Wine Bottles with Seal Marked “WCG / Zeal”
For William Chafyn Grove (1731-1793) of Zeals House, Wiltshire c. 1770
(Woolley & Wallis)
English Wine Bottles with Seals Marked for George Bickford of Dunsland House, near Holsworthy in Devon
c. 1770 - 1790
(Woolley & Wallis)
English Wine Bottle with Seal Marked “B. Dodson 1769”
1769
(Antique Associates of West Townsend)
English Wine Bottle with Coat of Arms Seal
c. 1770 - 1780
(Antique Associates of West Townsend)
English Wine Bottle with Coat of Arms Seal
c. 1770 - 1780
(Antique Associates of West Townsend)
English Wine Bottles with Seals Marked “T Chard 1773”
1773
(Woolley & Wallis)
English Wine Bottle with Seal Marked “E. Domett / Oswell 1774”
1774
(Antique Associates of West Townsend)
English Wine Bottle with Seal Marked “E. Domett / Oswell 1774”
1774
(Antique Associates of West Townsend)
English Wine Bottle with Seal Marked “Rolle 1774”
1774
(Winterthur)
 Richd./Lidstone/S. Huish/1775

English 2 Quart Wine Bottle with Seal Marked “Richd. / Lidstone / S. Huish / 1775”
1775
(Skinner)
English 2 Quart Wine Bottle with Seal Marked “Richd. / Lidstone / S. Huish / 1775”
1775
(Skinner)
 English Wine Bottle
c. 1770 - 1790
(Antique Associates of West Townsend)
 English Wine Bottle
c. 1770 - 1790
(Antique Associates of West Townsend)
English Wine Bottle with Seal Marked “ML 1776”
1776
(Antique Associates of West Townsend)
English Wine Bottle with Seal Marked “ML 1776”
1776
(Antique Associates of West Townsend)
 English Wine Bottle
c. 1780
(Antique Associates of West Townsend)
 English Wine Bottle
c. 1780
(Antique Associates of West Townsend)
English Wine Bottle Recovered from a New York City British Campsite
c. 1776 - 1783
(New York Historical Society)
Wine Bottle Recovered 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 Marked “F. ANDREWS / MODBy 1785”
1785
(Antique Associates of West Townsend)
English Wine Bottle with Seal Marked “F. ANDREWS / MODBy 1785”
1785
(Antique Associates of West Townsend)
English Wine Bottle with Seal Marked “HH 1785”
1785
(Skinner)
English Wine Bottle with Seal Marked “HH 1785”
1785
(Skinner)
English Wine Bottle with Seal Marked “M T. Mead 1788”
1788
(Woolley & Wallis)
English Wine Bottles with Seals Marked “I. Feathers 1789”
1789
(Woolley & Wallis)
English Wine Bottle with Seal Marked “HC”
Late 18th Century
(Skinner)
English Wine Bottle with Seal Marked “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 Marked “Wm SAVERY 1752”
From the Wistarburgh Glass Works of Alloway, New Jersey
(Philadelphia Museum of Art)
American Wine Bottle with Seal Marked “Wm SAVERY 1752”
From the Wistarburgh Glass Works of Alloway, New Jersey
(Philadelphia Museum of Art)
 English or American Wine Bottle with Seal Marked “Moses Gill 1772”
Portrait of Merchant Moses Gill of Boston, Massachusetts by John Singleton Copley 1764
(Rhode Island School of Design)
American Wine Bottle with Seal Marked “PS” Owned by Peter Stuyvesant II of New York
Possibly by the Wistarberg Glass Works of Alloway, New Jersey c. 1765 - 1772
(HistoricalGlass.com)
American Wine Bottle with Seal Marked “PS” Owned by Peter Stuyvesant II of New York
Possibly by the Wistarberg Glass Works of Alloway, New Jersey c. 1765 - 1772
(HistoricalGlass.com)
 English or American Wine Bottle with Seal Marked “S Colton 1767”
For Samuel Colton, Merchant from Longmeadow, Massachusetts 1767
(Private Collection)
 English or American Wine Bottle with Seal Marked “S Colton 1767”
For Samuel Colton, Merchant from Longmeadow, Massachusetts 1767
(Private Collection)
 English or American Wine Bottle with Seal Marked “S Colton 1767”
For Samuel Colton, Merchant from Longmeadow, Massachusetts 1767
(Private Collection)
 American Wine Bottle with Seal Marked “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 Marked “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
18th Century
(City of Boston Archeology Program)
 Dutch
Wine Bottles
 Dutch Wine Bottle
Early 18th Century
(Antique Associates of West Townsend)
 Dutch Wine Bottle
Early 18th Century
(Antique Associates of West Townsend)
 Dutch Wine Bottle
Early 18th Century
(Antique Associates of West Townsend)
 Dutch Wine Bottle
Early 18th Century
(Antique Associates of West Townsend)
 Dutch Wine Bottle
Early 18th Century
(Antique Associates of West Townsend)
 Dutch Wine Bottle
Early 18th Century
(Antique Associates of West Townsend)
 Dutch Wine Bottle
Early 18th Century
(Antique Associates of West Townsend)
 Dutch Wine Bottle
Early 18th Century
(Antique Associates of West Townsend)
 Dutch Wine Bottle
18th Century
(Antique Associates of West Townsend)
 Dutch Wine Bottle
18th Century
(Antique Associates of West Townsend)
 Dutch Wine Bottles
c. 1760 - 1780
(Antique Associates of West Townsend)
 Dutch Wine Bottles
c. 1740
(Antique Associates of West Townsend)
Mold Form
Bottles
Swedish Faceted Mold Form Bottle
1747
(Kulturen)
English Faceted Mold Form Bottle with Seal Marked “R S 1739”
1739
(Winterthur)
English Faceted Mold Form Bottle with Seal Marked “Jno __. / Jackson/1751”
1751
(Antique Associates of West Townsend)
English Faceted Mold Form Bottle with Seal Marked “Henry Lyte 1760”
1760
(Museum of London)
English Faceted Mold Form Bottle
Mid - Late 18th Century
(Woolley & Wallis)
Faceted Spirit Bottle with Seal Marked “Jno Greenhow / Wmsburg 1770”
For Jonathan Greenhow 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 Marked “LONDON”
c. 1701 - 1799
(Museum of London)
English Case Bottle with Seal Marked “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)
 “The GOOD HOUSE WIFE”
by Carington Bowles c. 1745
(Colonial Williamsburg Foundation)
 “The GOOD HOUSE WIFE”
by Carington Bowles c. 1745
(Colonial Williamsburg Foundation)
“Die Wallfahrt nach Französisch-Buchholz” / “The Pilgrimage to French Bucholz”
by Daniel Chodowiecki 1775
(Public Domain)
“Die Wallfahrt nach Französisch-Buchholz” / “The Pilgrimage to French Bucholz”
by Daniel Chodowiecki 1775
(Public Domain)
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”
 English
Tin Glazed
Earthenware Bottles
English Tin Glazed Earthenware Bottle from Bristol
c. 1765
(Chipstone Foundation)
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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