by Tom Licence | Jun 20, 2020
by Tom Licence | Jul 13, 2019
W. P. Branson, coffee extract bottle, dark green. Less common is the version in reddish-brown glass. These bottles are found all over the world. Branson later become a Limited Company, and later bottles have ‘Ltd’ embossed on them.
by Tom Licence | Jul 13, 2019
R. White & Sons Ltd had their main factory in Camberwell, South London, and sold their carbonated beverages (chiefly lemonade and ginger beer) in Codd bottles, stoneware bottles and glass corked/ internal-screw stoppered bottles. In the late 1880s, no deposit was...
by Tom Licence | Jul 13, 2019
Internal-screw stoppered bottle, embossed “S. Clayton & Sons/ Bow/ London/ New-Era Beer”, with ‘New-Era Beer’ on Vulcanite stopper. Simeon Clayton & Sons manufactured this non-alcoholic temperance drink (made from hops) at the...
by Tom Licence | Jul 9, 2019
Red-brown bottle for Chateau de Conde Champagne Cognac (?) Bottled for English export by ‘Green & Co’. (For another example of a foreign product bottled for English export, see ‘AEsculap bottle’.)
by Tom Licence | Jun 23, 2019
White ceramic, transfer-printed pot, made by Maling of Newcastle, for Keiller and Sons’ Dundee Marmalade – a very popular brand at the time.
by Tom Licence | Jun 23, 2019
Aqua glass, sheared-lip bottle for concentrated fruit juice crystals, embossed ‘Caley & Son, Norwich, Concentrated fruit juice drinks’, with trade mark. Caley was a manufacturer of carbonated beverages and confectionery.
by Tom Licence | Jun 2, 2019
Under-glaze stamped stoneware ginger beer bottle, belonging to the firm of Wilshak, whose premises were in The Rows, in Great Yarmouth.
by Tom Licence | Apr 23, 2019
Aqua glass cylindrical bottle with long thin neck and burst-off lip. The label is largely preserved and says ‘Hayward Bros/ Old English/ Ketchup/ for soups, gravies &c/ Hayward Bros/ 3[?] Kennington Road/ London, S. E.’ In 1898, Hayward Bros were...
by Tom Licence | Apr 19, 2019
Pickles jar, retaining part of original label. The name of the company is partly visible as […]enshaw & Tur[…], followed by the word ‘Pickles’, and ‘prepared with the finest vinegar’, then ‘Manchester’. In the centre...
by Tom Licence | Apr 19, 2019
Wedgwood plate, showing mother rolling pastry, and child carrying a pie, with animals and other designs in the margin. The word ‘pastry’ appears below the central image. Around the side is a motto: ‘Enough means health, more – disease’....
by Tom Licence | Feb 24, 2019
Larmouth & Co (of Hackney), Reliance patent Codd bottle, made by Dan Rylands of Barnsely. It is embossed ‘This bottle is the property of Larmouth & Co, No deposit charged’. When the firm went bankrupt, the stock of bottles was purchased by Nicholas...
by Tom Licence | Feb 24, 2019
Green internal screw mineral water bottle originally made for the Cohen Brothers of Camberwell before the dissolution of their partnership at the end of 1892. The bankrupt stock of bottles was purchased by the firm of Nicholas Paul (St Pancras) and sand-blasted with...
by Tom Licence | Nov 10, 2018
Black glass (i.e. very dark green) cork-topped bottle, embossed ‘YABC, Gt Yarmouth’. For carbonated beverages or fruit crush manufactured by the Yarmouth Aerated Beverage Company, which was established in 1896 and went bankrupt in 1898.
by Tom Licence | Nov 10, 2018
Two-tone ginger beer bottle (cork-top), impressed ‘Lawrance & Sons, Yarmouth, Beccles and Saxmundham’, with a pottery stamp from George Skey of Tamworth.
by Tom Licence | Nov 10, 2018
Two-tone, cork-top ginger beer bottle from Morgan’s Brewery Company, Norwich (with twelve named branch stores). Probably from the Yarmouth branch.
by Tom Licence | Nov 10, 2018
Aqua glass bottle with a burst-off lip to take a cork. The label says ‘Hayward Bros, Old English Ketchup, For Soups, Gravies, etc’, with an address in London, S. E. Note that at this date ketchup was a cooking ingredient, though Heinz’ Tomato Ketchup...
by Tom Licence | Nov 10, 2018
Ceramic white lid with black under-glaze transfer, for Blanchflower’s Yarmouth Bloater Paste, showing a herring trawler.
by Tom Licence | Aug 18, 2018
Two bottles, one enormous, the other large. Embossed: ‘The Original Ship Brand Chutney Manufactured in Bombay’.
by Tom Licence | Aug 18, 2018
Small Hock wine bottle, imported from Germany.
