never seen one like it

[suckerlemon]

...but I'm sure someone will tell me it's as common as muck. Blown in mould with added lip. 7 flutes in each side of mould (14 altogether). 205mm tall, 13mm diamter hole in top. Only marking "L&T" on base. Any ideas?

 

[otgb]

yep your right "common as muck" i think they were lime juice

 

[GuntherHess]

I've always heard them called fluted pepper sauces. Not rare but I would certainly bring it home if I dug it.

 

[RICKJJ59W]

Gunther is right its a pepper sauce not a lime juice.Here is one we dug at the start of a 1850s pit this one is a Iron pontil.very cool bottle I like peppers.Rick


dug

 

[RICKJJ59W]

Clean

 

[otgb]

the only reason i said lime juice is because we find these bottles in the dry ash at a dump we dig and the band labels
around the necks are still there sometimes and said lime juice
but i saw one at a bottle show yesterday that the neck label said black relish
but if they all had an iron pontil i would keep them and i would not care what you called them

 

[GuntherHess]

it wouldnt surprise me if they contained any number of different product. The form is just generally identified as a pepper sauce.

 

[suckerlemon]

Many thanks for your prompt and expert help guys. Just one quick further question - any idea where the bottles or the product they contained, originated? I found this one in Wiltshire England. People here tell me they haven't seen one like it. It has been buried for many years. I can well believe it was a sauce or relish of some kind - the bottle is the right size for that, but I doubt we would have had a pepper sauce here on general sale a hundred years ago.

Maybe it was lime juice - perhaps that's why we're called Limeys.

 

[dollarbill]

Heres one not as many ribs but same type of bottle in an early screw top .Says Beech-nut on the cap, think it was grape juice. Cool bottle though and ip makes it even cooler.bill

 

[dollarbill]

Pic of the cap.