by Tom Licence | Jan 4, 2015
Rubbish from a Victorian pit, including part of a blacking bottle, marked ‘blacking bottle’. This was stamped on bottles in the period 1817-34 to show that they were exempt from the levy on stoneware bottles. The fragmentary glass coffin-shaped bottle in...
by Tom Licence | Jan 3, 2015
Large blacking bottle with typical flared lip, used for stove blacking, boot blacking, and harness liquid.
by Tom Licence | Dec 28, 2014
Part of an incised stoneware blacking bottle, marked with the manufacturer’s name and address and ‘BLACKI[NG BOTTLE]’. Blacking bottles were identified in this manner to avoid the excise duty levied on stoneware bottles in the period 1817-1834, from...
