by Tom Licence | Mar 31, 2015
Ice-blue medicine bottle, with cork lip, 17 cm tall, no markings. The profile is oval. Discarded after the death of Mary Everett in 1908.
by Tom Licence | Jan 4, 2015
Medicine bottle with measurements for tablespoons, embossed ‘A. V. Lester M. P. S./ Chemists/ Canterbury’. Cork top.
by Tom Licence | Jan 4, 2015
Left: medium-size Owbridge’s bottle, c. 1910, Marshbrook. Right: small Owbridge’s bottle, discarded 1915-20, Tilbury. The firm was based in Hull and sold its products all over the country. The smaller bottle was discarded in London and then dumped in...
by Tom Licence | Jan 4, 2015
Two aqua/blue medicine bottles. The one on the left is embossed ‘Cousins and Thomas, Oxford’. Their shop was in Magdalen Street.
by Tom Licence | Jan 4, 2015
Left: aqua glass, ‘Dr Adolf Hommel’s Haemotogen’, a blood purifier. It cost 4 shillings. Centre: aqua glass, ‘Owbridge’s Lung Tonic, Hull’. This size cost 2 shillings and nine pence. Right: ‘Eno’s Fruit Salts’, a...
by Tom Licence | Jan 3, 2015
Two small green medicine bottles, with tooled lips (centre and left). Contents uncertain.
by Tom Licence | Jan 3, 2015
Small clear glass medicine bottle, for ‘Powell’ of ‘Blackfriars Road’. Found among rubbish from the 1870s. Labourers’ cottages, Kent.
by Tom Licence | Jan 3, 2015
Small aqua medicine bottle, found with rubbish from the 1870s. Labourers’ cottages, Kent.
by Tom Licence | Jan 3, 2015
Small aqua/blue medicine.
by Tom Licence | Jan 3, 2015
Medicine bottle for Barclay & Sons Ltd, Farringdon St, London. From London rubbish dumped in Essex.
by Tom Licence | Jan 3, 2015
Brown glass medicine bottle, made in a three-piece mould. No embossing. Cork top.
by Tom Licence | Dec 22, 2014
Elliman’s Embrocation bottle, c. 1900. Medicine for chest complaints, etc.
