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Coutesy, The Museum of the Cape Fear, Fayetteville, NC |
It was a very exciting day researching a small collection at the Museum of the Cape Fear here in North Carolina. I got to see a stacking method for bottles that I have not seen such solid evidence for yet. For the most part, I have only seen evidence of using stackers, or larger saggar-like pieces for stacking bottles.
Let me see if I can make sense of what I saw today:
Meet Exhibit A:
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Coutesy, The Museum of the Cape Fear, Fayetteville, NC |
Meet Exhibit B:
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Coutesy, The Museum of the Cape Fear, Fayetteville, NC |
When A meets B:
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Coutesy, The Museum of the Cape Fear, Fayetteville, NC |
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Coutesy, The Museum of the Cape Fear, Fayetteville, NC |
Look at the top of this handle piece, you can see the halo of a small circle:
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Coutesy, The Museum of the Cape Fear, Fayetteville, NC |
Here is my idea of how the bar was put on top of the bottle rim with a small pad on top of the handle to balance it out:
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My sketch |
Another bar in the collection may be evidence of how long the bars were.
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Coutesy, The Museum of the Cape Fear, Fayetteville, NC |
I found the pinches at the center of the bar, as well as other bars, very interesting. I have yet to see other bars with pinches on the sides.
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Coutesy, The Museum of the Cape Fear, Fayetteville, NC |
Excellent find!
3 comments:
Thanks for another thought provoking post.
NERD!!!
Thanks, Dennis! I've had a few questions about how the bottles then stack on top of one another, so I will try to get to that soon. AND! I embrace my nerdiness and excitement over esoteric things.
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