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
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 | 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
Bluish smaller size for ‘Owbridge’s/ Lung Tonic/ Hull’ (embossed in panels). For coughs, colds, chest complaints etc.
by Tom Licence | Jun 17, 2018
Aqua glass bottle embossed in panels ‘Kay Brothers Ltd/ Linseed Compound (Trade Mark)/ Stockport’. This was marketed as a remedy for coughs, colds, chest complaints, bronchitis, asthma, consumption, influenza etc. Like Elliman’s Embrocation, it was...
by Tom Licence | Jun 17, 2018
Wide-mouthed cobalt blue glass bottle, possibly for granular citrate of magnesia, for curing stomach upsets.
by Tom Licence | Jun 17, 2018
Small, bluish glass, Table spoons bottle, for medicine.
by Tom Licence | Jun 17, 2018
Clear glass, wide medicine phial, unembossed.
by Tom Licence | Jun 17, 2018
Medicine bottle embossed ‘Elliman’s/ Universal/ Embrocation’ (Slough). The bottle would have had a glass stopper wedged in a cork ring.
by Tom Licence | Jun 17, 2018
Aqua medicine bottle embossed ‘Steward and Son/ Yarmouth’, with gradations for two tablespoons.
by Tom Licence | May 13, 2018
Aqua glass medicine bottle, embossed ‘R. F. Young/ New Barnet’, with gradations that seem to be for quantities of two tablespoons. Made by the York Glass Company (logo embossed on base).
by Tom Licence | Oct 16, 2016
Blue-glass, North American bottle, embossed ‘Bromo-Seltzer/ Emerson Drug Co/ Baltimore, MD (i.e. Maryland). Imported from the USA, discarded in Norfolk.
by Tom Licence | May 16, 2016
An assemblage of household rubbish discarded in the 1870s at Brockdish rectory. Top left (from left to right): clinker, oyster shells, small bones, green glass German mineral water bottle fragments and aqua glass English wine/ ale bottle fragments, ‘black’...
by Tom Licence | Apr 13, 2016
Two small medicinal phials, one brown, one aqua. The aqua one, when found, contained a small carved wooden stick of some sort, which may have been to do with its contents. Found in a ditch filled in 1883.
by Tom Licence | Mar 10, 2016
Medicine phials found amid ash and domestic refuse of the 1890s. Left, Powell of Blackfriars. This clear-glass bottle has been affected by its burial in the ground, which has given it a black coating. Right, an unembossed mould-blown medicine phial.
by Tom Licence | Apr 3, 2015
Two bottles for Congreve’s Balsamic Elixir, discarded with other medicines after the death of Mary Everett in 1908. Both clear glass. The bottle on the right is an earlier design, embossed on all four panels: ‘Congreve’s / Celebrated Balsamic/...
by Tom Licence | Mar 31, 2015
Clear glass bottles, both retaining their corks and some of their contents (prior to cleaning). Judging by the contents, they held medicine of some sort. The one on the left is 7.7 cm tall. The thin one, right, is 6.3 cm tall. Dumped in 1908 after the death of Mary...
by Tom Licence | Mar 31, 2015
Clear glass medicine bottle retaining cork and part of contents. Embossed on the base is a flat-cut diamond profile (a hexagon), containing the letters Y/G/ Co, for the glassworks. 12 cm tall and 4.7 cm wide at the shoulder. The same glassworks made three of the...
by Tom Licence | Mar 31, 2015
Ice-blue medicine bottle with gradations, embossed ‘Tablespoons’. It retains the cork and some of its contents. 15.5 cm tall, 6.1 cm wide at the shoulder. Discarded after the death of Mary Everett in 1908 along with other medicine bottles retaining some of...
