Leather Covered Bottles

[LRB]

I am not trying to be a smart a$$, because I really don't know. How common were leather covered glass bottle canteens in the 18th c.?? Maybe I have overlooked a number of relic articles, or printed material, or just wasn't paying enough attention, due to that particular article at the time, being unimportant to me, but I just cannot recall any. If this was done, how common was it? I feel that I have possibly just overlooked something.

 

[Rifleman1776]

Can't answer that. My response was intended to be more practical than PC. I really dunno. What I do know is a glass bottle can be cleaned and not as likely to hold disease causing buggies as wax and pitch. I wouldn't use one. I would hang it up and say "that's like they used to use". Getting gut pumping sick :barf: in the woods isn't my idea of fun. :td: Might be 'authentic' but not for me. :shake:

 

[Rifleman1776]

Can't answer that. My response was intended to be more practical than PC. I really dunno. What I do know is a glass bottle can be cleaned and not as likely to hold disease causing buggies as wax and pitch. I wouldn't use one. I would hang it up and say "that's like they used to use". Getting gut pumping sick :barf: in the woods isn't my idea of fun. :td: Might be 'authentic' but not for me. :shake:

 

[necchi]

I've been looking for a proper answer to that one too.
Haven't found it yet.
Sure would make it easy,,

 

[hawkeye2]

The "Collector's Encyclopedia" has examples of them but I wouldn't dare guess how common they were. I would presume the survival rate was low but a lot of canteens probably got hard use in civilian life after the war. I used one during the Bicentennial. One of the common household cleaning products, Lestoil perhaps, was available in correct glass bottles and I covered one with leather, carved a stopper from a section of broomstick and slung it with cotton cord. One should be able to find those bottles at flea markets.