by Tom Licence | Jun 20, 2020
by Tom Licence | Jul 9, 2019
Light green glass mineral water bottle for the water called ‘AEsculap, from a spring in Budapest. Part of the label, bearing the name, remains. T.D. Luke and N.H. Forbes, in their manual ‘Natural Therapy’ (Bristol, 1913), p. 284 list this brand under...
by Tom Licence | Jul 9, 2019
Dark green glass bottle for mineral water. The brand, called ‘Hunyadi Janos’ after a medieval Hungarian hero, was marketed by Andreas Saxlehner of Budapest as an ‘aperient water’, recommended for combating constipation. The spring was near...
by Tom Licence | Jun 23, 2019
Horn or early plastic moulded comb. Broken and warped.
by Tom Licence | Jun 23, 2019
Pot lid for Breidenbach’s cherry paste (toothpaste), for the teeth and gums. Breidenbach & Co describe themselves as Perfumers and Distillers of Wood Violet to Her Majesty the Queen. Their address is given as Bond St, London. The pot lid was excavated in two...
by Tom Licence | Jun 23, 2019
Large size, 1 shilling, Wood’s Areca Nut toothpaste pot lid. The smaller size, 6d (sixpence) is more common.
by Tom Licence | Jun 23, 2019
John Gosnell & Co’s Cherry Toothpaste, claiming royal patronage and showing the portrait of the young Victoria. Polychrome pot lid.
by Tom Licence | Jun 2, 2019
The idea of selling a quack remedy based on a Native American cure was the brainchild of William Henry Hartley, the original ‘Sequah’. Hartley, who claimed to have come upon the cure in his travels in frontierland, marketed it as a healing tonic prepared...
by Tom Licence | Jun 1, 2019
Clear glass pills bottle for the ‘Tabloid’ range, embossed with a monogram superimposing the letters B W Co, and the registration number, Rd 12029, dating the registration of the patent to 1884/5. External screw-thread with ground glass on top.
by Tom Licence | Apr 23, 2019
Aqua glass flat bottle with long neck and burst-off lip. The remains of the label say ‘Cold Drawn Castor Oil’, then below, ‘…two tablespoonfuls’, and on the next line also ‘…two tablespoonfuls’. Then, at the bottom,...
by Tom Licence | Apr 19, 2019
Bone items: a knife handle and two toothbrushes. One bears the name of the local maker G. Bristow, Yarmouth. The other is an import, impressed with the words ‘Extra Fine, Paris’ (this referring to the bristles).
by Tom Licence | Apr 19, 2019
Branded medicine: light-blue glass bottle with wide neck, embossed ‘Bishop’s Granular Citrate of Lithia, For Gout [twice, down two corner panels]’. Bishop’s purveyed various cures, including Granular Citrate of Caffeine (for headaches),...
by Tom Licence | Apr 16, 2019
A bottle for Boot’s Emulsion. The shape of the bottle and lettering are based on those of a popular brand of the time, ‘Scott’s Emulsion’, with which this own-brand product was competing. Boot’s had opened their first store in this...
by Tom Licence | Nov 10, 2018
Wavy-grip left-handed bone toothbrush (no markings) and a lid for a pot of Wood’s Areca Nut toothpaste, price 6d. This is the most commonly found brand of toothpaste in rubbish dumps of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
by Tom Licence | Nov 10, 2018
Small green lavender water bottle.
by Tom Licence | Nov 10, 2018
Clear glass bottle with crown-shaped moulded stopper, embossed ‘The Crown Perfumery Company, London’, with traces of red label on each side, bearing details of the same.
by Tom Licence | Nov 10, 2018
Eau de Cologne bottle, from the firm of Johann Maria Farina, who founded a perfume works in the 18th century opposite Julich’s platz in Cologne. This bottle is for his No. 4. Clear glass.
by Tom Licence | Nov 10, 2018
Two bone toothbrushes. One is incised ‘Extra Fine Paris’ (referring to the quality of the bristles). The other is incised G. Bristow, Yarmouth. Kelly’s Directory for Norfolk, 1900, lists George Bristow, ‘hair dresser and sub-post office, 154...
by Tom Licence | Jul 14, 2018
Two unembossed medicine bottles, the one on the right retaining its hand-written label and remnants of brown contents.
by Tom Licence | Jun 17, 2018
American toilet water bottle, embossed ‘Agua de Florida/ Paris Londres/ New-York’. Remnants of label around the neck.
