Q: When the floor of our AmVets Post in Perry, Ohio, was replaced, we found a bottle with the words “Fairport Bottling Works, M. Killinen, Prop.” in raised letters. The bottle was covered in dirt but is clear glass. The top is broken off, but it will still make a nice vase once the jagged part is cut off or ground down. I don’t think it has value, but I’d like to know how old it is and where it’s from. Our post meets in an old building that I think was an icehouse around the time of the Civil War, so the bottle may date from the mid to late 1800s.  

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