Gordon's Dry Gin London England Bottle 1909-1914

Gordon's Gin has been in business since Alexander Gordon set up a distillery in 1769.  According to the website idahoarchaeology.org, this rough specimen dates from 1909-1914.  It has Gordon's Dry Gin London England embossed on two sides, and the boar's head logo on the bottom.  This is a dug bottle and has the patina to show for it!  It is crude and the neck tilts to one side.

 

 

 

Usher's Wiltshire Brewery Ltd. Bournemouth Beer Bottle

This bottle has an internal thread for a screw in stopper.  Its an emerald green colour bottle that stands at almost 10".  It dates from around the late nineteenth to early twentieth century.  Thomas Usher started Usher's Wiltshire Brewery with his wife Hannah in 1824.  His sons pushed production after their parent's retirement and in 1889, the company became Usher's Wiltshire Brewery Ltd.  The company kept brewing right up until the year 2000.  The brewery's equipment was dismantled and sold to a North Korean brewery.

Walker's Kilmarnock Whisky Bottle 1798

This aqua-greenish botltle stands about 9 1/2" and is in the famous squared shape.  The squared bottle is supposed to have been easier to ship as there was less space wasted.  This bottle was made probably between 1890 and 1910, according to the information I have found.  Its a nice crude bottle full of bubbles in the glass and very pronounced seam lines.  Walker's Kilmarnock Whisky was made by the famous John (Johnnie) Walker, and was produced prior to his son and grandson using his name on later whiskey bottles.

Burst Top Octagonal Ink Bottle

This is a typical ink botlle from Victorian times.  The top is snapped off during the manufacturing process.  Quite a nice little bottle.

Upcoming Posts

It has been almost a year since my last post on this blog.  I'm much more regular with my other blog, but I hope to be with this one as well.  I will begin a series of posts looking at miscallaneous bottles that really only have one thing in common; they're old!  Stayed tuned!

Clarke's World Famed Blood Mixture Lincoln Bottle.

Clarke's Blood Mixture was thought to cure a variety of diseases, as it was advertised that many ailments were the result of bad blood.  The Blood Mixture was to purify the blood, with is ingredients which were a mix of water, burnt sugar, potassium iodide, sal volatile, chloroform, and syrup sweetener(courtesy of the quack doctor, thequackdoctor.com).  One of its advertising slogans, using a quote from the book of Deuteronomy, is apparently mentioned and ridiculed in the book Dracula.  This bottle is a later variant and is 7 1/2" tall.

Rawleigh's Bottle and Salve Tin.

The famous Rawleigh's company has been in business from 1889 until today.  They started out with a door to door medicine store service, and the travelling Rawleigh Man became a fixture in American, Canadian and Australian towns and villages.  Rawleigh's still uses independent representatives to sell its products today.  There is a lot of information about this company; check out their website.  The bottle stans 6 1/4" tall and is an older one without the screw top.  The tin has a  3 1/4" diameter and is quite ornate, though in rough shape.  The founder, W.T. Rawleigh,  is prominently featured on the tin.

Claude E. Packard Prescription Druggist Bottle.

I couldn't find out much about Claude E. Packard or his pharmacy, other than he operated in Auburn, Maine, in the late 1880's.  The image of the mortar and pestle is quite interesting and appropriate on this bottle.  It stands at 4 1/2" tall.

John Wyeth & Bro, Philadelphia Bottle.

This cobalt blue medicine bottle measures 2 3/4"high, and the face of the bottle reads "John Wyeth & Bro Phila".  The John Wyeth and Brother company was founded, surprise surprise, by John Wyeth and his brother Frank in 1860, in Philadelphia.  The firm produced a variety of elixirs in many forms.  The company continues to this day.

Louis Callisch, Druggist Bottle.

I have not been able to dig up any information (pardon the pun) about this 7" tall bottle.  The bottle reads Louis Callisch Druggist San Jose, Cal.