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(1803-73) of Lexington who
according to his obituary
“inherited the secret” from his
father. Burrowes Mustard, which
won a medal at the 1851 Great Ehibition and was later owned by Brand and by Bruner Bros,
became known as Lexington
Mustard. American collectors
have speculated that the ‘W.D.
no7’ bottle (mentioned above)
might be a ‘William Burrowes’ or various glasshouses but I recall –
but annoyingly can’t put my finger
on – an advert in Britain that specifically used the letters. Having
Above: 1758 Benjamin Jackson advert.
period between 1818 and 1828.
Embossed black glass mustards include Ellison & Co
‘attested mustard’ embossed for Hull and London is one used by George Ellison, a drysalter, based at New George Street,
Hull, who had been making mustard from before 1830 at the Mill there - which later became the Kingston Mustard, Blue, and
Black Lead Works.
French exported prepared mustard was put up in wide mouth, bulging barrel shapes with
hoops in both black and clear glass. The largest quantity of bottles recovered from the SS Republic which sank off Georgia in 1865 were these bottles. Embossed barrels
of a later date included those marked for ‘Moutard Diaphane / Louit Freres & Co’ of Bordeaux. Bordeaux mustard seems to have made barrels their signature container. Desecaulx & Freres and Louit (makers of Moutarde Diaphane from 1845, ‘LF’ barrels are theirs too) used barrels. American companies such as Charles Gulden (founded 1862 New York), Stieglitz, Giessen, and Tobleman & Peters took the shape up too with pontil examples.
moved the company to
Louisville, Brand fought a legal
case with ‘Metcalfe’s
Improved Lexington
Mustard’ over the name
‘Lexington Mustard’;
neither won.
Bottles with just
‘LONDON’ embossed
were certainly used for
mustard but as Olive
points out they have also
been found (in wrecks)
with other condiments
such as pepper. The duel
usage is pointed up by
5.5 ins tall ‘MUSTARD/
PEPPER’ embossed
examples and identical
ones with ‘U.S.Navy’ and
either ‘PEPPER’ or
‘MUSTARD’. The glass houses
listed ‘mustard squares’ but in
lots of sizes and these will have
included rectangular ‘LONDON’
bottles (there are 6 ins American ones with ‘LONDON / MUSTARD’ on
one face). There is at least one sealed bottle for mustard - illust’d in
Vol 1 of David Burton’s new Sealed bottles (p207) book. A rectangular snuff-like olive green bottle c1790, which has WAYRE’S / GENUINE / MUSTARD’ to the large body seal. Joseph P Wayre mustard manufacturer of Upper Thames Street London is noted in the London Examiner of July 1840 as dissolving a partnership with Benjamin Josland
As Olive points out, Maw listed (1839) Mustard Squares in ‘1/2 and 1 pound sizes but under the heading “Black Glass Bottles, Carboys, etc.” and other lists have sizes up to 8lbs and also mention “flats ovals or octagons.” She also notes from some lists the weight is not necessarily capacity: “The 3 ounce size held 3 ounces, the 1/4 pound size held 2 1/4 ounces and the 1 pound size held 5 1/3 ounces”. Probably unembossed, some of these may well be amongst those collectors habitually call ‘snuff’ or ‘blacking’ jars in America (square phials embossed ‘SNUFF’ are not dissimilar to LONDON bottles and Benjamin Jackson showed a bottle quite like one as early as 1758). Dr. Dyott of Philadelphia included “Mustard (plain) and Ditto (London)” in the
Above: Wayre’s shoulder sealed mustard featured in Vol 1 of David Burtons new sealed bottles book.
Above L: Ellison & Co black glass embossed cylinder. Above R: bluey aqua barrel embossed
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