I get that you are being very clever, but why would they?
What manufacturing was being done in Usa in the late 19th century?
Correction. I had actually meant to write millennium and had a brain fart. Looking up, the name goes back over 1,500 years.
Without researching it I don’t know the exact numbers but my WAG is that in 1890 Japan’s industrial base was about 1% of that of the United States, and other than silk and a few other items, there would be little that could be exported.
What little manufacturing was done was concentrated in Tokyo, Osaka and other major cities, not some backwater rural area.
Thank you. That addresses the statements made by earlier posters:
So the town Usa is unlikely to have exported anything before country-based origins were used.
Not simply “unlikely”. For a whole bunch of reasons that would bore people to tears, it’s as close to “impossible” as you could get.
I don’t think I’ve every seen a product “Made in (city)”. The company name and city may be on the label - one of my nephews years ago had the joke that it seems everything was made in Dayton, OH - but generally, no. IIRC the labelling laws mandate country of origin.
See @Banksiaman’s post :
So unless you were born a long time ago, you wouldn’t see that.
What about the cookware company named “Made In”? Their drawn aluminum pans and whatnot are stamped “MADE IN”, not followed by any place name. I just visited their web site, but a cursory scan, including visiting their History page, didn’t turn up a reason for their oddly used name.
Sodastream is made in Beersheba, aka Be’er-Sheva. The city is part of Israel.
Coke glass Bottles are supposedly stamped with the name of the city the product was first bottled. Cecil did a column about that, in fact.