Bottle Stacking



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:

Coutesy, The Museum of the Cape Fear, Fayetteville, NC

Meet Exhibit B:

Coutesy, The Museum of the Cape Fear, Fayetteville, NC

When A meets B:

Coutesy, The Museum of the Cape Fear, Fayetteville, NC

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:

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:

My sketch

Another bar in the collection may be evidence of how long the bars were.

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.

Coutesy, The Museum of the Cape Fear, Fayetteville, NC

Excellent find!