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Blacking Bottle – corrected to ‘Early Hamilton Bottle’

Blacking Bottle – corrected to ‘Early Hamilton Bottle’

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...

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