by Tom Licence | Jun 17, 2018
Bluish smaller size for ‘Owbridge’s/ Lung Tonic/ Hull’ (embossed in panels). For coughs, colds, chest complaints etc.
by Tom Licence | Jun 17, 2018
Aqua glass bottle embossed in panels ‘Kay Brothers Ltd/ Linseed Compound (Trade Mark)/ Stockport’. This was marketed as a remedy for coughs, colds, chest complaints, bronchitis, asthma, consumption, influenza etc. Like Elliman’s Embrocation, it was...
by Tom Licence | Jun 17, 2018
Wide-mouthed cobalt blue glass bottle, possibly for granular citrate of magnesia, for curing stomach upsets.
by Tom Licence | Jun 17, 2018
Small, bluish glass, Table spoons bottle, for medicine.
by Tom Licence | Jun 17, 2018
Clear glass, wide medicine phial, unembossed.
by Tom Licence | Jun 17, 2018
Medicine bottle embossed ‘Elliman’s/ Universal/ Embrocation’ (Slough). The bottle would have had a glass stopper wedged in a cork ring.
by Tom Licence | Jun 17, 2018
Aqua medicine bottle embossed ‘Steward and Son/ Yarmouth’, with gradations for two tablespoons.
by Tom Licence | Jun 16, 2018
Green glass tapering bottle for lavender water, which was used as a toilet water/ perfume.
by Tom Licence | Jun 16, 2018
Small clear-glass jar with external screw-thread and ground top. It contained remnants of a yellowish greasy substance like Vaseline or a chest rub. External screw-thread jars were rare at this date, only just coming in. They would have been expensive to make....
by Tom Licence | Jun 16, 2018
Aqua glass medicine bottle, embossed ‘St Jacob’s Oil/ The Charles A Vogeler Company/ London England’. This product was a liniment for treating rheumatism. It was also advertised as treating gout and other aches and pains.
by Tom Licence | Jun 16, 2018
Aqua glass bottle for Beetham’s Glycerine and Cucumber, face cream (for purifying and whitening the skin).
by Tom Licence | May 13, 2018
Tiny clear-glass bottle embossed to front with tessellated diamond design. Probably for scent. Found by Ben Ross.
by Tom Licence | May 13, 2018
Ground/ moulded cobalt-blue-glass bottle stopper, from a medicine or chemist’s bottle.
by Tom Licence | May 13, 2018
Rectangular pot lid with under-glaze transfer-printing in black: ‘Tooth Powder/ Henry Francis Partridge/ L.D.S. R.C.S. F.S.S./ Surgeon Dentist/ South Kensington’. Henry Francis Partridge is listed from at least 1879. In 1888 he was involved in a court case...
by Tom Licence | May 13, 2018
Aqua glass medicine bottle, embossed ‘R. F. Young/ New Barnet’, with gradations that seem to be for quantities of two tablespoons. Made by the York Glass Company (logo embossed on base).
by Tom Licence | Oct 16, 2016
Medium-sized Clarke’ Miraculous Salve ointment pot, priced at 2/9 per pot. Prepared by The Lincoln and Midland Counties Drug Co, Lincoln. Only the base section was found.
by Tom Licence | Oct 16, 2016
Blue-glass, North American bottle, embossed ‘Bromo-Seltzer/ Emerson Drug Co/ Baltimore, MD (i.e. Maryland). Imported from the USA, discarded in Norfolk.
by Tom Licence | Oct 16, 2016
Virol jar, with lettering in black print. This was a nourishing food. The text says ‘Virol, a preparation of Bone-Marrow, an ideal fat food for children and invalids’.
by Tom Licence | Oct 16, 2016
Brown-glass bottle, embossed ‘Society of Homeopathic Chemists Limited/ London’.
by Tom Licence | Jun 23, 2016
Stoppered amber/ brown glass bottle for toiletries, perfume or possible photographic developing chemicals.
