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Clear glass bottle with a crown finish, long tapered neck, and straight cylindrical body — the “clear glass crown top” form called out in the seller title. The heel embosses SHINER and TEXAS in block letters on opposite sides of the base panel, visible in this straight-on photograph. The flint glass shows internal haze through the shoulder and body (typical “sick” glass on older bottles), with light surface wear and no paper label.

This is Three Rivers Glass–era regional packaging, not Hoffmann-Hayman branding, but it belongs in the same collecting lane as the other bottles from Glass Bottles from Three Rivers. We acquired it in June 2014 from jays-emporium on eBay as part of that six-bottle purchase; the heel marks line up with the listing’s Shiner and 1922–1937 Three Rivers plant-era wording.

Three Rivers clear crown-top bottle (Shiner-era listing; Three Rivers Glass)

Register: Accession HH-BOTTLE-2014-0002 is transferred on the accession register — the physical bottle was sold to Mac Johanson (Three Rivers, TX). This image is a collection-period object photograph taken before the transfer.