by Tom Licence | Jun 16, 2018
Light blue glass, burst-off lip, disposable lamp. These were sold containing oil/ paraffin, with a wick through the cork.
by Tom Licence | May 16, 2016
A close-up of bottle fragments and other material from the rectory rubbish pit at Brockdish. Centre: ‘black’ glass English dip-moulded wine bottle bases. Below left: the square, tapering base of a black-glass Dutch or possibly English dip-moulded gin...
by Tom Licence | Mar 28, 2015
A milk glass oil lamp stand in the bottom of the trench, cleared out after the death of Mary Everett in 1908.
by Tom Licence | Jan 17, 2015
Part of the lid from Samuel Clarke’s Patent Pyramid Food Warmer and Night Light. This was a lidded jug with a small metal stand, holding a night light, which heated it from below. It was used in the nursery for boiling milk (to kill bacteria), keeping food warm...
by Tom Licence | Jan 3, 2015
Aqua paraffin lamp, embossed ‘The Star Lamp’. Burst lip.
by Tom Licence | Dec 24, 2014
The central part of an oil lamp (standing upside-down).
by Tom Licence | Dec 24, 2014
Glassware from the School House, including a turquoise cup, a stem and foot from wine or sherry glasses, a jug or mug handle, part of a sugar bowl and a lamp flue.
