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And this, I guess, is how NOT to photograph bottles. No, the wind didn't blow them over [] But by all rights it should have []

 

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And especially for Surface, here are some grotesques washed & ready for the table :

 

[surfaceone]

ORIGINAL: SAbottles

And especially for Surface, here are some grotesques washed & ready for the table :

Thanks for thinking of me, Dale,

Those are wonderful melties! Especially that ribbed sauce(?)!

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These were literally "nuked."

 

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Yup; it's a coconut oil bottle, Surface; used as a salad oil and doubled as a hair dressing ! Versatile stuff !

 

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Connor, here is the bottle you asked about: it is the SA Breweries beer bottle with an internal screw stopper:

 

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The embossing is a bit tricky to photograph as it curves around half of the bottle and the base section is very thick:

 

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Bottom two lines are "South African Breweries". Supposedly one got a deposit back on these, but the Lane is yielding a remarkable number of them:

 

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Of particular interest for us is the H embossed on the base: this indicates that the bottle was made at the Hatherley glass works near Pretoria and is thus one of the earliest bottles commercially manufactured in SA. (ie around 1895 - 1900)
We also get SA Brewery bottles with Riley London on the base, obviously imported from England.

 

[madman]

WOW! GREAT DIGS! KEEP POSTING! NICE BOTTLES, THANKS FOR SHARING ENJOY YER POSTS