by Tom Licence | Apr 23, 2019
Bone washer, impressed ‘Cartwright’s patent’. It may have been from the top of a baby’s feeding bottle.
by Tom Licence | Mar 10, 2016
Lamont’s Patent mineral water bottle, embossed with a hand holding a bottle, and the name of the firm Forster G, Moore, New Conduit Street, King’s Lynn. Around the base, embossed ‘Lumb & Co, Makers, Castleford’. The stopper, a wooden bullet...
by Tom Licence | Mar 10, 2016
Blackwood’s Patent Syphon ink bottle, with distinctive pouring lip and hole to rear of neck. Fragmentary bottles of this and the larger size were also found amid rubbish from the early 1880s.
by Tom Licence | Mar 3, 2016
Mystery patent bottle, embossed Lawrence & Hawkins Patent, with a metal external screw-on cap with the remains of a brush in the top. Inside the bottle is what appears to be a large rubber washer, which is too large to have gone through the neck unless it was...