Hi,
Yeah, thanks for that - Alan currently has the bottle. He has told us that he' s certain it' s a fake. We' re waiting for him to send it back to us with some of the black removed (we tried, but obviously weren' t aggressive enough in our attempts)
I post more info here when I have it...
Th rest of the box
Here' s a collage of the rest of the box. We really don' t know much about any of these bottles, so any hints gratefully received.
Ade
RE: Taunton fair
lost marble,
Thanks for the links. Taunton is close enough to me, so I' ll probably be there on Sunday if anybody wants to take a look at this bottle.
Cheers,
Ade
OK,
There were 13 bottles in the box. As far as I can tell from my novice research they all date from 1870(ish) to 1900(ish) but the range may be narrower. I' ve identified a few of them, but here' s another I' m having trouble with...
Dark green ginger beer (?) bottle with bubbles and...
IRISH,
Thanks ! Until yesterday I didn' t really know much about bottles at all. I' ve spent the last 24 hours trawling all the online resources for information, but I' ve been unable to find anything like this one.
It came in a box of old bottles from a house clearance sale in the UK...
Hello,
My father-in-law recently came across this bottle. We' ve had trouble finding any information about either the bottle or the manufacturer.
Front of the bottle has:
HALIFAX & DISTRICT MINERAL WATER MANUFACTURERS ASSOCN LTD
REGISTERED TRADE MARK
and in the centre (date isn' t...