🔎 UNIDENTIFIED Lead/Pewter Bottle Caps?

[USNFLYR]

The site I go to seems to have been active with gill net fishermen, loggers and stone cutters. I have figured the time frame of activity to have been 1880-1920. I have found many of these pliable caps. My research is sketchy with only two hits on the internet that discuss them. One person says they are from flasks. The other person thinks these were used during the transition from cork to screw on tops. One is still attached to glass.

Any guesses?

 

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[pepperj]

Nice caps, I dug a few last week as well. Though not nearly as nice.

 

[cudamark]

With the glass bit in one, I'd vote for flask. Otherwise, maybe a canteen?

 

[CRUSADER]

Pretty sure these are early 1900s Medicine Bottle Caps.
When I was a kid digging bottles I found a few with the caps on they were small like this one & similar shaped, but often slightly less bulbous;
Note this one has a screw top & is WT&Co (Medicine/Apothecary).

 

[USNFLYR]

Pretty sure these are early 1900s Medicine Bottle Caps.
When I was a kid digging bottles I found a few with the caps on they were small like this one & similar shaped, but often slightly less bulbous;
Note this one has a screw top & is WT&Co (Medicine/Apothecary).

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Thanks. It makes sense.