This is a great example of a Civil War period quart Schnapps bottle.  The deep green color of this bottle is often called “black glass.”  It is a “Schnapps Aromatico” bottle that is embossed down the side with the wording “SCHNAPPS AROMATICO.”  On the other side “SCHIEDAM” is embossed.  The bottle measures 9 ¼” tall and 2 ¾” round, with a whittled surface.  There is minor surface bubbling towards the top of all four sides of the bottle.  The neck has faint stretch marks and there are straw marks on one of the non-embossed sides.  The base has a circular embossed ring inside an impressed circle.

Udolpho Wolfe was a well-known New York gin importer, who was also involved in local politics, and from a prominent Virginia family.  Considered a "medicinal” gin, it helped ease ailments of the stomach, and posed as a remedy for bladder and kidney maladies. Schiedam gin was originally produced in Schiedam, a town in South Holland, Netherlands, which was the town’s main industry during the 18^th and 19^th century Industrial Revolution.  Wolfe brought Schiedam Schnapps to the Americas in 1848, and the item was produced in his distilleries in the Netherlands.  [mc] [ph:L]

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