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 | 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 23, 2016
Army and Navy Cold Cream pot lids and bases, with a (Victorian) Burgess’s Anchovy pot lid and base bottom left.
by Tom Licence | Mar 6, 2016
Plain brown cream pot, brown glaze on the outside, yellowish-cream glaze on the inside, no stamp.
by Tom Licence | Mar 3, 2016
Small ceramic ornament in the shape of a table, with two cats peeking out from underneath. The top of the ornament, now damaged, had a row of three teacups and saucers with three tabby cats crouched over the top of them licking off the cream. Found amid ash and...
by Tom Licence | Mar 3, 2016
Base of a cylindrical cream pot from an unidentified dairy in Hastings. Above ‘Hastings’ is the word ‘Ro???’ Can anyone identify the dairy? Found amid ash and domestic refuse of the 1890s at the King’s Lynn ash yard, this had travelled...
by Tom Licence | Apr 6, 2015
Two small jars for cosmetics or toiletries. The one on the left is made of milk glass. The one on the right is embossed ‘Boots Cash Chemists’ and contained a greasy orange residue. It retained its rusted metal screw-on lid. Of 100 bottle necks sampled in...
by Tom Licence | Jan 17, 2015
Otto of Rose Cold Cream pot lid, sold by J. M. Davis & Sons, at The International Pharmacy, with addresses in London. The product ‘will keep good in any climate for years’. The lid has been in a destructor (without excessive damage) and has suffered...
by Tom Licence | Jan 17, 2015
Army and Navy Co-operative Society, Almond Shaving Cream. Pot lid with red-brown transfer.
by Tom Licence | Jan 11, 2015
Part of a cylindrical white ceramic pot with a purple transfer. The most common sort is printed ‘Pure/ Clotted Cream/ From/ Devonshi[re]/ [D]aily’. (The ‘re’ of Devonshire and most of ‘Daily’ are visible on this fragment.) Others...
by Tom Licence | Dec 27, 2014
Tucker’s Devonshire Clotted Cream pot. Blue transfer on white. 1880s. Discarded c. 1910 in labourers’ rubbish, Kent, having travelled via Devon and London.
by Tom Licence | Dec 27, 2014
Left: Pot lid for Cracroft’s Areca Nut Toothpaste. An advert on the underside of the lid promotes ‘Sulpholine Soap’ (Bergh Apton). Right: Pot lid for Atkinson’s Rose Cold Cream, price one shilling. Atkinson also made bear’s grease (London...
by Tom Licence | Dec 24, 2014
Pot lid for ‘Price’s Celebrated Cold Cream, for chapped hands and faces’. Found with rubbish from the 1890s at labourers’ cottages in Castle Rising.
by Tom Licence | Dec 24, 2014
Assorted stoneware bottles mostly for furniture cream and ginger beer, with a couple of galley pots, ink bottles and cream jars, and two bottles for German mineral waters.
by Tom Licence | Dec 24, 2014
Left: base of a decoratively moulded milk-glass jar, for skin cream. Right: milk-glass jar, ‘Creme Floreine (+) Paris’ – a beauty product. Imported.