by Tom Licence | Jan 4, 2015
Aqua/blue cylindrical ink, with a banner embossed ‘ARNOLD’. Burst lip for cork.
by Tom Licence | Jan 4, 2015
Stoneware ink with rounded shoulders.
by Tom Licence | Jan 4, 2015
Two stoneware ink bottles, showing a slightly larger variant in bluish creamy grey.
by Tom Licence | Jan 4, 2015
Large-size blue glass octagonal ink bottle, with burst lip. Neck slightly askew.
by Tom Licence | Jan 4, 2015
Small ink bottle, found with rubbish from the 1870s.
by Tom Licence | Jan 3, 2015
Medium size, dark brown ink, with pouring lip.
by Tom Licence | Jan 3, 2015
Cream-coloured stoneware ink with pouring lip and indecipherable potter’s mark. Two were found in the rector’s privy pit.
by Tom Licence | Jan 3, 2015
Small stoneware bottle, cork top. Found with a Codd bottle and a hand-made Bovril, among other items.
by Tom Licence | Jan 3, 2015
Stoneware, cork top.
by Tom Licence | Jan 3, 2015
Light blue octagonal ink bottle, with a burst lip. These were sold at a penny each. Cork top.
by Tom Licence | Dec 28, 2014
Crude early stoneware ink bottle, possibly a kiln waster. Part of the lip and neck broke away before the bottle was glazed and fired. It may still have been used, with a cork kept in place by sealing wax. Found on the Thames foreshore.
by Tom Licence | Dec 27, 2014
Two late stoneware bottles. The one on the left held ink. The other has an external screw thread.
by Tom Licence | Dec 24, 2014
Assorted stoneware bottles mostly for furniture cream and ginger beer, with a couple of galley pots, ink bottles and cream jars, and two bottles for German mineral waters.
by Tom Licence | Dec 22, 2014
Four ink bottles in aqua and green glass, with burst-off lips. These cost a penny each and came with corks which were often sealed with sealing wax. From the School House.
by Tom Licence | Dec 22, 2014
Mounted inkwell from a writing box. Glass exterior, lined with white pigment or other substance, holding metal inkwell inside. Two metal bands attached to a metal back-plate held it in position.
