Bottle Fragment

EP-2010-7-31

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Curatorial Section: Historic

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Object Number EP-2010-7-31
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience United States of America | Pennsylvania | Philadelphia County | Philadelphia | Univesity of Pennsylvania Museum
Section Historic
Materials Glass
Inscription Language English Language
Description

-Teal-colored glass bottle, somewhat milky (relatively clear) – top half of bottle only; including lip, rim, neck, shoulder, and 1/3-1/2 of body (diagonal break in body). Only 1 half of bottle preserved – missing all of body and part of shoulder on 1 side (may have broken along a seam). Multiple cracks through body, lettering in semi-circular pattern across face of bottle. Not sure what kind of base. Letters pronounced up to bottle extending down on to neck (rim)

CHAS JOLY

No 9

So SEVEN(?)NTH ST

(PHILA)DELPHIA

Height 17 cm
Width 5.2 cm
Credit Line Penn Museum Building Construction and Expansion Projects

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