by Tom Licence | Aug 18, 2018
Clear glass jar, with external screw thread, ground on top. Embossed on base ‘Propert’s, London’. Such jars contained boot cream or other creams and polishes. It is an early example of a jar with an external screw thread.
by Tom Licence | Aug 18, 2018
Left, bottle embossed down both side panels ‘Argonaut Reg.’, for hat polish. Right, bottle embossed down side panels ‘Floraline’/ ‘London’, corked with metal drizzler – a hair tonic product?
by Tom Licence | Jun 17, 2018
Small brown stoneware bottle with remnants of green and white label. Some words are visible: ‘…BBY [CR]EAM’, and on a line below ‘Fur[ni]ture’. Below this ‘[H]ELPER’, and on the bottom line ‘ONE PENNY’.
by Tom Licence | Jun 17, 2018
Unembossed aqua bottle with oval panels and remnants of labels in the panels. The front label identifies the contents as ‘Hat Polish’.
by Tom Licence | Feb 26, 2016
Cobalt blue glass bottle embossed ‘The Electric Furniture Polish’. Found in a ditch filled in 1883.
by Tom Licence | Mar 31, 2015
Aqua glass bottle, 12.7 cm tall, embossed on three sides: ‘Hauthaway’s/ Peerless Gloss/ Made in U.S.A’. Hauthaway’s company, established in 1852, manufactured protective coatings for shoes. The bottles come in different colours. Some have the...
by Tom Licence | Mar 31, 2015
‘Stephenson Brothers, Bradford/ Furniture Cream’ embossed on shoulder of this clear-glass bottle. In 1908, when this bottle was discarded, glass was beginning to supersede stoneware, although the Stephenson Brothers still sold their famous product in the...
by Tom Licence | Feb 8, 2015
The tin with a perforated top contained scouring powder for scrubbing doorsteps, polishing cutlery or the like. The other tin is missing its lid. The pocket hip flask was for spirits.
by Tom Licence | Jan 25, 2015
Heavy stoneware jar/ bottle for jam or preserves, or possibly for paint or polish.
by Tom Licence | Jan 4, 2015
Small brown stoneware bottle for boot polish or similar.
by Tom Licence | Jan 3, 2015
Large blacking bottle with typical flared lip, used for stove blacking, boot blacking, and harness liquid.
by Tom Licence | Jan 3, 2015
Large aqua glass bottle for the Stephenson Brothers’ Furniture Cream, Bradford. These began to supersede their stoneware bottles after 1910.
by Tom Licence | Jan 3, 2015
Stoneware furniture cream bottles, cork top, used by the Stephenson Brothers and other firms.
