Anyone with a hankering for some British stoneware?

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A couple more vets bottles. The little jug has some damage: missing the handle, and with a firing blowout and accompanying chip at the side of the applied seal. But it's possibly from Francis Clater of Retford. A famous veterinarian of the late 18th and early 19th centuries.

The skit drinks bottle is from Holbeach, a small town in eastern England. 'Skit' is an obsolete term for scour in cattle and sheep. I don't know if the same term was ever used in the US.

 

[bostaurus]

As far as I know "skit" was never in common usage here.
I think I have one of Clater's books, very famous in vet history.
Those are great bottles. You must have one of the best collections of vet stoneware around.
Maybe I can convince my husband to sell his Mini and let me use the money...then again he would not be able to get to work.

 

[bostaurus]

These are the only two English stoneware vet bottles I have. The Carless one is pretty common I believe...at least I have seen them several times for sale.

 

[deepbluedigger]

The Carless bottle is nice, but as you say not too hard to get. The Leicester one is quite a few steps up from the Carless. Very unusual to find vets bottles in the 'champagne shape' (I've only ever had one) and I'm willing to bet that there are quite a few collectors over here who would love to have that in their collections!

THat's an interesting little pot to the side. American?

 

[bostaurus]

I used to teach pottery and made that little one for my husband out of a piece of scrap clay I was going to throw out.

I thought that was kind of an unusual shape for the vet bottle. What do you think the age is on it? I know the ginger beer shapes were used till quite late.

 

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The stoneware torp in the first picture has now GONE.

Not a £6k bottle like the stoneware torp that just sold on ebay. Mine was more like £350 - £400. Brought me a rare aqua pontilled Moxons Magnesian Aperient. More normally found in flint glass, and there's also a larger rectangular version in aqua and pale apple green. These bottles turn up in the States from time to time. This is the only aqua one I've seen.

Embossed "Moxon's / Effervescent // Magnesian / Aperient / Prepared by // B. Moxon / Chemist / Hull"

Still looking for pontilled meds!!!

 

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A few more pieces of stoneware: Rare small size (5 1/2") Queen Victoria / Prince Albert flask, ca 1841 - 42; Salt glaze mug advertising Lincolnshire brewers Ridlington & Poppleton, of Boston. 1840s - 50s, with highly detailed fox hunting scene; stoneware blacking bottle from Warrens of London with the St Martin's Lane address (ca 1805 - 1816). All perfect or close to it.