Civil War Glass Pepper Sauce Bottle

Description

Civil War Glass Pepper Sauce Bottle

Excavated Camp Example

Original Civil War–era glass pepper sauce bottle, excavated from a Civil War campsite and subsequently tumbled clean. Tall and narrow in form, this bottle was designed to dispense pepper sauce or similar condiments, items commonly sought by soldiers to add flavor and heat to issued rations.

Manufactured in aqua glass with free-blown characteristics, the bottle displays period-appropriate thickness variations and subtle manufacturing irregularities. Pepper sauce bottles were frequently carried in camps and haversacks and are regularly recovered from known Civil War encampment sites.

A desirable Civil War camp artifact, representing the personal comforts and dietary habits of soldiers in the field.

Inventory Number: BOT 197