Been a while

[SAbottles]

Gosh, Brandon ~ that was around 1985 and I think I sold it for about 15 Rands (That would have been about $6 in those days!) I sold a lot of things when I began dealing which I could kick myself for now and at prices which were laughable but ... oh well!

Here are some pictures of the early Eno's bottle and a suspiciously similar Lamplough's bottle:

 

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The embossing on the Eno's :

 

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And the Lamplough's bottle ~ this claimed to cure sea-sickness, all sorts of fevers etc and was almost definitely a copy of the Eno's bottle. James Eno's product had quickly become famous and much sought after and as we know "Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery !"

 

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Here's a selection of the lids that went on the Eno's bottles. They would have a cork sleeve around the base section so that they sealed the bottle tightly:

 

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This was probably one of the earlier ones:

 

[Brandons Bottles]

Thanks Plumbata. SAbottles, that's pretty amazing. Those lids must be pretty uncommon. I was wondering how the bottles were closed, too (another reason I bought it, I guess I could say). Altogether, I just though the bottle was weird and interesting in its own sort of way, and would never have thought that so much history could be involved with this weird, 3 letter name. Thanks for sharing. []

 

[JOETHECROW]

ORIGINAL: SAbottles

Here's a selection of the lids that went on the Eno's bottles. They would have a cork sleeve around the base section so that they sealed the bottle tightly:

Those are pretty cool Dale....

 

[carobran]

. The contents were supposed to have a citrus flavor, too.
[/quote] What do ya put citrus flavored salt on?[8|]

 

[LtlBtl]

citrus salts save a step in tequila shots.

 

[SAbottles]

Yeah, LtlBtl ~ I think putting Eno's in your tequila would have pretty amazing results ! []
I do remember at school (back in the Dark Ages) someone pouring some Eno's into an inkwell - with pretty spectacular results ! []

@ Brandon ~ actually the lids are very common, I have a whole boxful; the bottles are harder to get hold of.

@ Thanks Joe.