by Tom Licence | Aug 18, 2018
Clear glass jam jar embossed with a shield-shaped border which contains the remnants of a label. Glass jam jars are uncommon at so early a date. The vast majority of jam and marmalade jars in the late 1890s were ceramic, and ceramic jars continued to be common for...
by Tom Licence | Aug 18, 2018
Various bottles from the Great Yarmouth site, including Codd bottles, Hamiltons, Ginger Beers and minerals bearing the names of local firms (Lawrence, Hunt, Newman, Neslen, Wilshak, YABC, etc). There are also a few London makers represented. The green bottle with...
by Tom Licence | Aug 18, 2018
White ceramic pot for potted meat, left. Ribbed ceramic jar for jam or marmalade, right.
by Tom Licence | Aug 18, 2018
Aqua glass smaller size tea bottle, embossed ‘Lipton’s, London & Ceylon’.
by Tom Licence | Aug 18, 2018
Ketchup bottles, with remnants of labels. On the left, Hayward Brothers, Old English Ketchup. On the right, a different brand, ‘Tickles’.
by Tom Licence | Aug 18, 2018
Green glass bottle, with remnants of label and cork, for bitters – imported from Germany or the Netherlands.
by Tom Licence | Jul 14, 2018
Bottles for coffee extract, including (right) Paterson’s Camp Coffee. The green bottle on the left is similar to those later used by the Scottish Co-operative Wholesale Society (SCWS) for bottled coffee extract, but unlike those it is not embossed. Both would...
by Tom Licence | Jul 14, 2018
Foster Clark & Co, Maidstone, Eiffel Tower Fruit Juices. This aqua-glass bottle with a burst-off lip contained crystals for adding to water to make fruit juice. Each bottle was supposed to make up 3 gallons. They sold for four and a half pence.
by Tom Licence | Jul 14, 2018
Two aqua-glass unembossed whisky/ spirits flasks. The one on the left is colloquially termed a ‘pumpkin-seed flask’, the one on the right, a ‘coffin flask’, on account of their shapes. All such vessels are flat enough to be slid into a large...
by Tom Licence | Jul 14, 2018
Gillard’s (larger bottle, left) and Lea & Perrin’s sauce bottles, both embossed with company name and bearing the remnants of red and white labels. Both would have had glass stoppers held in place by a cork ring.
by Tom Licence | Jul 14, 2018
Two brown-glass Scotch Whisky bottles, with remnants of labels in red, black and gold.
by Tom Licence | Jul 14, 2018
One of many oyster shells excavated in the layers of domestic waste at Great Yarmouth. It probably came from Mersea/ Colcester in Essex.
by Tom Licence | Jun 17, 2018
Blue ceramic with white interior half-pint pub mug, with royal cipher of Queen Victoria, confirming the capacity. Missing the handle.
by Tom Licence | Jun 17, 2018
W. B. Neslen, cork-stoppered stoneware ginger beer bottle, made by Pearson of Chesterfield.
by Tom Licence | Jun 17, 2018
Mr Stanger set up the Yarmouth Aerated Beverage Company in November 1896, and it went bankrupt in May/ June 1898. His ginger beer bottles had a dark blue top.
by Tom Licence | Jun 17, 2018
Lawrance of Yarmouth, Saxmundham and Beccles, stoneware ginger beer bottle, made by G. Skey of Tamworth. Such bottles were returnable. Cork stopper. In 1900, Lawrance switched to internal screw stoppers for his bottles (as advertised in the local paper for that...
by Tom Licence | Jun 17, 2018
D. W. Newman stoneware ginger beer bottle, Great Yarmouth. Cork top. Such bottles were returnable.
by Tom Licence | Jun 17, 2018
Lawrance of Great Yarmouth, 10 oz Codd bottle. Lawrance were the largest mineral water manufacturers in Yarmouth.
by Tom Licence | Jun 17, 2018
Small, dark green Champagne bottle – French import.
by Tom Licence | Jun 17, 2018
10 oz YABC Codd bottle (Yarmouth Aerated Beverage Company), Great Yarmouth. Made by Wm Barnard and Sons, London. The 6 oz Codd is known to have contained lemonade.
