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Blobtop with Internal screw top: R. STOTHERT&SONS AND ATHERTON (Picture of an old man with beard) I think this one's a Ginger Beer as I've seen clay Beers with this name but no bottles?
Hey asterisk,
I do like that Stothert. You're right about the stone ginger.  "Name/Address: R. Stothert & Sons, Atherton
Pottery: Buchan Portobello (Meadowcroft patent)
Price: £89.00
Condition: Faint hairline" From.
The bearded gent is Richart Stothert and his image on bottles was Applied for Trade Mark in 1893. "Portrait of Richard Stothert, and Latin quotation: for drugs in class 3. By R. Stothert & Sons, Albion House, Atherton, near Manchester. The essential particular is the devise. 170,577" From Chemist & Druggist, 1893.
There's a bottle @ that e-place. The seller notes the "UNIQUE RECESSED SIDE PANELS" and misidentifies it as a ginger beer.
They were listed as "Stothert R. & Sons North road Atherton - Commercial chemists & druggists (wholesale),& mineral water manufctrs." In http://www.lan-opc.org.uk/Atherton/directories/kelly1905.htmlKelly's Directory for Atherton 1905. Because they were apparently well known for their ginger beer, if it's a Stothert, must be a GB.
Here's an amusing ad for Antiques Bottels - $35 (Woonsocket RI ) that features "Awesome Early blown in 1600s Antique Pictural Mineral Water or Soda bottle with the Greatest FAT Applied Blob Top. This bottle is amazing and displays spectacularly. It has High Embossings reading R. STOTHERT & SONS then has a Circle with a pic of a Gentleman in old time Suit, ATHERTON. Back heel reads E. BREFFIT & CO. LTD. MAKERS CASTLEFORD. The Blob Top lip was applied and Drips all over. It is a big fat blob flat on top and has creases all around it. Blown of nice Thick Heavy Wavy glass almost wood whittled with Bubbles. Base embossed 9668. No damages offered in Mint condition and squeaky clean. I can't say enough good about this bottle. I have Many Antique bottles to list. Let me know.
Estimate $40-$80 or best offer ( 1st pic )"
Stothert later bacame Stothert Ltd. and was subsequently bought by Scottish bottler Barr. "The public offering enabled Barr to begin expanding its operations. In 1967, the company, which previously had marketed its soft drinks only in bottles, added canning capacity with the purchase of Stotherts Ltd, based in Atherton. The company later became the first in the United Kingdom to adopt the new stay-on-can flip-top type can pull rings. Barr also released a low-calorie version of Irn Bru at the end of the decade." From.
Stothert also had a Codd bottle, per this listing "77. 2 pictorial codds R. Stothert Atherton & C." From this January 2009 BBR Auction.
Hope'ya take some nice photos and post'em here when that bunch arrives.
 "Henry Mayo BATEMAN, died on Gozo, aged 83 years, buried 14th February 1970. He was born in Sutton Forest, New South Wales, Australia, in 1887 of English parents who returned to England when he was still a baby. After studying at the Westminster School of Art and Goldsmiths College, he began his long career as a cartoonist.
By the 1930’s he was one of the leading cartoonists in England, with his work appearing in fashionable magazines like ‘The Tatler’, ‘The Strand’ and most importantly in ‘Punch’. His cartoons were mainly based on social blunders and absurd situations peculiarly English in manner. Quite a number carried the caption “The Man Who……….”
Due to the popularity of his work he was also commissioned to design advertising posters for products, and during the Second World War posters for the Government." From.
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