LETTERS
to the Editor
Holy Moses Springs Eternal Hi, John, I wish to make a comment about the “Letters to the Editor” in the November issue of AB&GC.
Now that’s a bottle room! The million bottle temple in Thailand.
George Olgesby wrote about a Moses Poland Spring bottle in carnival glass. My father was an automatic machine glass operator at Anchor Hocking for 33 years. In fact, during that time period, he once brought home a ruby glass Borden’s milk bottle that he made. I remember it well. It never went into full production as Borden never accepted it. At that time, however, Anchor did make Canada Dry Bottles and Golden Wedding Whiskey bottles in carnival glass. I have dug both kinds at Lancaster, Ohio. Anchor also had a small blow shop where they would make prototype pieces to try and sell to prospective customers. I suspect this is exactly what George’s Moses bottle is. I have never seen one. My first cousin worked in packing and shipping and never saw one either. One last note: It appears it was intended for an alcohol beverage company because of the “Federal Law Prohibits” embossing.
I Thought I Had a Bottle Room Hi, John, Once I had a discussion with Steve Watson, Dick’s son, and we both agreed that every home should have a bottle room. But this is a little over the edge. In Thailand, a monk and his fellow Buddhists thought it would be a good idea to get some of the trash out of the overall garbage stream, so they decided to have everyone in their province bring them their empty beer bottles.
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Best regards, The result was that the bottles were used to construct an entire temple built with recycled beer bottles. Over one and a half million empty beer bottles were used to construct Thailand’s Wat Pa Maha Chedi Kaew temple. On top of that, the monks used the beer caps to produce art work in the form of mosaics that are exhibited throughout the temple. They’re still collecting empties with ideas of expanding the temple. Bob Strickhart Pennington, N.J.
Gary Beatty North Port, Florida
A Very Lucky Find, Indeed Hello, John, I enjoyed reading John Scarpati’s letter to the editor in the October 2020 issue of Antique Bottle & Glass Collector in response to my article, “The Stoneware Doctor.” John mentioned he had written an article about stoneware repair for your magazine 18 years ago, and he
