found bottles

[manxie]

i have a small green tinted bottle about 5 or 6 inches long with he words eiffel tower lemonade on one side and maidstone the other, does anyone know what year and why so small,- also have a bottle with boots british one side and lysol other side again what year, i live on the isle of man and befor the houses went up here there was a tip so now there digging loads of bottles - jar

s etc are appearing as there building new houses,


margaret

 

[bigkitty53]

Hi Margaret,
Really need to see a picture or at least get a better description of the lips and mold lines on your bottles in order to date your bottles.Eiffel Tower lemonade was a popular concentrate around the turn of the century,don't know when they went out of business. Boots as you know is still around.Is it a sheared lip or applied?

KAT

 

[bearswede]

Boots, the chemist...?

 

[Dirranbandi]

G'day

The Eiffel Tower Lemon concentrate is farily common and dates 1900-1920's while the Boots Lysol bottle would be from the same period, again fairly common but nice bottles nonetheless.

There is a bit of info on Boots Chemist on the web, including http://www.censusuk.co.uk/boot.htm which provides details of Jesse BOOT, the original founder of the company.

Cheers,

Dirranbandi

 

[grimdigger1]

Eiffel tower fruit juice bottles contained flavoured crystals that were addded to water to produce fruit drink..
The earlier ones circa 1895 - 1900 sometimes carry a picture of the eiffel tower on two sides,these are worth approx £5.00 for the regular size..
they also made two larger sizes with the tower on as well,,both scarce
Also made non pictorial ones in amber and mid blue glass these are both rare..