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I have three different threads going lately. For a while I'll be on one, and then I'll jump to another. I might be on one topic for a day or two or three and then change. One of my recent topics has been how to determine the age of items. My list of factors is general and can be applied to almost any type of find. That, of course, includes bottles. |
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There are always good things to be found on the beach. I've said this before, but there is always some place to hunt and something to find.
I've been talking a lot about Spanish shipwreck treasure and other old finds lately, but the beaches are always being replenished with new items. Here is one nice 14K gold and diamond ring find. While I know very little about diamonds, this one seems to be cut very nicely. There are a lot of facets and they seem to work very well together.
Not only is the central diamond nice, but the surrounding diamonds aren't bad either.
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One type of mark you'll find on many bottles is “FEDERAL LAW FORBIDS SALE OR REUSE OF THIS BOTTLE.” This law went into effect in 1935 and was repealed on December 1, 1964. So that gives you a fairly specific date range, although the mark can be found on bottles that were distributed later than that date.
Here are some other important dates that can help you determine the date of a metal detecting site.
- 1934: Colored labeling makes its soft-drink-bottle debut. In the original process, the coloring was baked on the bottle.
- 1952: The first diet soft drink—a ginger ale called "No-Cal Beverage" produced by Kirsch—was sold.
- 1957: Aluminum cans for soft drinks were introduced.
- 1959: The first diet cola was sold.
- 1962: The pull-ring tab was invented by Alcoa. It was first marketed by the Pittsburgh Brewing Company of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
- 1963: In March, the "Pop Top" beer can, invented by Ermal Fraze of Kettering, Ohio, was introduced by the Schlitz Brewing Company.
- 1965: The resealable top was invented.
- 1970: Plastic bottles for soft drinks were introduced.
- 1974: The stay-on tab was introduced by the Falls City Brewing Company of Louisville, Kentucky.
- 1979: Mello Yello soft drink was introduced by The Coca-Cola Company as competition against Mountain Dew.
- Those and other dates can be found by using the following link, which will take you to a site about soda pop and other carbonated beverages.
- https://www.thoughtco.com/introduction-to-soda-pop-1992433
Here is a link to a great web site for information about beer and soda bottles. It will ask you a bunch of questions about your bottle to come up with a date range. It does requires some previous knowledge of bottle terminology.
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Here is a nice little web site about the basics of archaeology. It talks about a lot of the same type of stuff that I've been discussing lately such as the difficulty of evaluating artifacts.
Here is a brief excerpt.
After establishing all of the scientific data about an item, the archaeologist must begin to direct higher level questions at the object such as: who made it? Why? How was it used? Who used it?
Deductive reasoning rather than laboratory analysis better answers these questions. Once the archaeological eye leaves the university microscope, it quickly refocuses on scanning an overview of all of the hard, physical evidence in order to deduce answers to the philosophical questions. Here is where interpretation begins to become mistily subjective...
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