Stoneware Ginger Beer Bottle - Buchan Portobello Pottery

[UnderMiner]

I was searching the woods today around where an old Victorian mansion once stood and found the scattered fragments of a ceramic bottle. I collected the fragments and reconstructed what I had to make this:

It isn't complete but there is more than enough to see one full side, and it just so happens to be the side with the manufacturer's stamp.

The manufacturer stamp indicates it was made by Buchan Portobello Pottery in Scotland. This company produced ginger beer bottles from 1867-1900.

Does anyone know if there was any variation to this bottle's production history that could further specify its date of manufacture within the aforementioned time period? Thank you

This is just the second stoneware ginger beer bottle I have ever found, I still haven't found a complete one.

 

[Wallaman]

underminer. What do you use to hold your bottles together when you reconstruct them. I have a Hutchinson that has the blob top broken off at the neck.

 

[UnderMiner]

underminer. What do you use to hold your bottles together when you reconstruct them. I have a Hutchinson that has the blob top broken off at the neck.

I use Elmer's glue and Scotch tape. As I set the pieces with the glue I tape them in place, then I remove the tape after a few days when it's dry.

 

[Wallaman]

Just plain school white glue or a special type? Thank you.

 

[UnderMiner]

Just plain school white glue or a special type? Thank you.

Yep!

 

[Hladnopivo]

underminer. What do you use to hold your bottles together when you reconstruct them. I have a Hutchinson that has the blob top broken off at the neck.

I would recommend duco-cement for many bottle-fixes.

 

[Wallaman]

Hladnopivo: Thank you for your info.

 

[Kaleb86]

I said that about a hutch then I found three this year. Keep searching and you will find one for sure

 

[Wallaman]

In cleaning my dug bottles from 50+ years ago I found I have 14 Hutchinsons

 

[hemihampton]

I'm probably up to finding about 50 Hutches in past 12 Years. I remember my first one. I think? it was a common aqua G. Norris from Detroit 12 years ago.