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Illustration 43. — Upper left, wineglass, reconstructed 

 from base fragment having enamel twist for stem. 

 One-half. (U.SNM 59.1761.) 



Illustration 44. — Upper right, cordial glass. One- 

 fourth. (U.SNM .59.1607.) 



Bottles, from one to four Quarts; also Cases of Bottles 

 of all Sizes . . .,"-"^ while George Ball, of New York, 

 in 1775 advertised that he imported "Green glass 

 Gallon square bottles, Two quart ditto. Pint ditto. "-'° 

 A smaller base (USNM 59.1642) has a high kick-up, 

 the donte of which intersects the sides of the base so 

 that the bottle rests on four points separated by arcs. 

 This fragment measures 3 inches square. An even 

 smaller version (USNM 59.1977) is 2% inches. 

 S.XUFF BOTTLES. — Scvcral itcms in Mercer's ledgers 

 record the purchase of snuff, such as one for a "bottle 

 of snulT" in 1731 for 15d., another in 1743 for 3s., 

 and a third in 1 744 for 1 s. 6d. Among the artifacts 

 is a partly restored bottle of olive-green glass, shaped 

 like a gin bottle but of smaller dimensions, with 



"9 Dow, op. cit. (footnote 178), p. 104. 



"" Rita Susswein, The Arts & Crafis in j\'ew York, 1726-1776 

 (New York: J. J. Little and Ives Co., 1938), p. 99. (Printed 

 for the New-York Historical Society.) 



Illustration 45. — Sherds of cngraved-glass wine and 

 cordial glasses (fig. 82c). Same size. (USNM 59.1634, 

 59.1864.) 



a 2}i-inch-wide mouth (L'SNM 59.1686, fig. 81). 

 The bottle is 3% inches square and 7 inches tall. It 

 has a low kick-up and a smooth pontil mark. Also 

 among the artifacts are a matching base and several 

 sherds of similar bottles. 



Medicine bottles. — Only a few fragments of medi- 

 cine bottles occurred in the Marlborough artifacts. 

 This is surprising, in view of Mercer's many ailments 

 and his statements that he had purchased "British 

 Oyl," "Holloway's Citrate," and other patent nos- 

 trums of his day. A round base from a greenish, 

 cylindrical bottle (USNM 59.2056) seems to represent 

 an Opadeldoc bottle. Another base is rectangular 

 with notched corners. The last, as well as the base 

 of a molded, basket-pattern scent bottle (USNM 

 59.2093) may be early 19th century in date. Other 

 medicine-bottle fragments are all 19th century, some 

 quite late (fig. 82). 



TABLE GLASS 



A minimum of table-glass sherds was recovered, 

 and these were fragmentary. Glass is scarcely itien- 

 tioned in Mercer's accounts, although there is no 

 reason to suppose that Marlborough was any less well 

 furnished with fine crystal than with other elegant 

 objects that we know about. Three sherds of htavy 

 lead glass have the thickness and contours of early 

 18th-century English decanters, matching more 

 complete fragments from Rosewell and a specimen 



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