by Tom Licence | Jul 14, 2018
Two aqua-glass unembossed whisky/ spirits flasks. The one on the left is colloquially termed a ‘pumpkin-seed flask’, the one on the right, a ‘coffin flask’, on account of their shapes. All such vessels are flat enough to be slid into a large...
by Tom Licence | Jul 14, 2018
Two brown-glass Scotch Whisky bottles, with remnants of labels in red, black and gold.
by Tom Licence | Mar 10, 2016
Glass ‘coffin’ flask for whisky or other spirits, bearing the name of A. Hodge, Grimsby (with address for return). 1890s
by Tom Licence | Jan 4, 2015
Rubbish from a Victorian pit, including part of a blacking bottle, marked ‘blacking bottle’. This was stamped on bottles in the period 1817-34 to show that they were exempt from the levy on stoneware bottles. The fragmentary glass coffin-shaped bottle in...
