by Tom Licence | May 13, 2018
Ground/ moulded cobalt-blue-glass bottle stopper, from a medicine or chemist’s bottle.
by Tom Licence | Mar 31, 2015
Clear glass perfume bottles with ground interiors to the necks for taking glass stoppers. Left, a round bottle, 9 cm high, tapering slightly outwards from base up to the shoulder, with T & S/ L embossed on the base. Right, oblong bottle, 10.5 cm high, with...
by Tom Licence | Jan 25, 2015
Three heavy aqua glass lemonade bottles, with necks for internal-screw stoppers. Left: ‘Green & Ledicott Ltd, Southend-on-Sea’, handmade, vulcanite stopper. Centre: ‘Green & Ledicott Ltd, Southend-on-Sea’, machine-made, stopper missing....
by Tom Licence | Jan 25, 2015
Aqua glass stoppers for wide-necked bottles and jars.
by Tom Licence | Jan 11, 2015
Aqua sauce bottles, embossed ‘Goodall, Backhouse & Co, Yorkshire Relish’. The one on the right retains its original glass stopper.
by Tom Licence | Jan 4, 2015
Most bottle stoppers are clear or aqua glass, like the two pictured bottom right. These are more unusual in being coloured. Top left, two brown stoppers. Top right, two cobalt blue ones. Below, left, a black/purple stopper. These were probably from chemists’...
by Tom Licence | Jan 4, 2015
Aqua glass bottle stoppers. Top and bottom centre: this type was used for chemists’ bottles and was ground to fit in the neck. The rest (except for the patent internal screw design bottom right) are from sauce bottles (Worcester sauce, Yorkshire relish etc)....
by Tom Licence | Dec 22, 2014
Bone-handled corkscrew, from labourers’ rubbish. The other object is a ceramic bottle stopper.
