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193. GOLDFIELDS PEPPER SAUCE BOTTLE. 9.75ins tall. Aqua glass, deep in places, smoothed pontil base. Highly attractive and shapely early piecewith variations to design
Missing Diamonds
Diamond Registry bottles run from 1842-1883 in two cycles: the placing
of number and letters changed after 1869. We could refer to these two groups of bottles as ‘First Period’ and ‘Second Period’. Generally speaking the first period are those that tend to come under the ‘goldfields’ heading. With the exception of some ink or perfume bottles they are generally
larger preserves, salad oils, or drinks bottles. Characterised by a chunky feel, drippy applied lips and sometimes pontilled. Embossing, other than a diamond, is rare (they were not allowed to register text) and it is the ornamental shape, flutes, bevels and bulges that attracts. Some bottles, such as the one shown here have no diamond but are plainly of the period. It is pontilled (the shape would have made it difficult to hold in a
194. OIL
LAMP BASE.
3.25ins tall.
Turquoise
glass, side handle,
inside inmanufacture
flaw & minor lip chip, but a delightful colour/ looker. (9/10) NR £20-30+
197. BOURNE DENBY CERAMIC FLOWER HOLDER GROUP. Tallest 9.5ins tall, top section off-white, bottom a bright green glaze. Pointed ends (fit into the soil/ ground, flowers in the upturned section) range from
front and back. This bottle was featured in a BBR magazine where Guy Burch attempted to attribute the design, the nearest he could get was one similar to an 1850’s Kilner shape. Australias Michael Marysej has 4 sizes of this bottle - illustrated in the magazine article - see easylive
Australias Michael Marysej has four sizes of the design.
standard snap cage) and likely dates c. 1850-60. Four sizes are known (this is the largest) and others have double collar lips rather than a band.
Registration was not cheap and an exact match for the design of this large illustrated bottle is not in the pattern books although it is quite similar to a Kilner registered bottle of 1850. Designs vary in accuracy and sometimes it is obvious the makers had to adjust them in
600+.
order to make moulding practical. The Kilner has an angular base,
flat faces and protruding band at the ‘waist’. The lack of a diamond
does not mean it wasn’t registered originally. The protection period was nonrenewable and the Design Act 1842 only conferred copyright protection for a period of three years. After this time a manufacturer could still use the design but not the diamond mark: hence the versions of the same bottle design that are marked or not marked. The unmarked ones can still be nearly as early but are generally less expensive than those with a diamond.
Below: Kilner’s design of 1850 is close but not close enough. The ‘peanut’ shell bodied bottle is quite possibly from the same glass maker.
Right: The larger, 25 cms tall of the 4 recorded sizes of the pontilled pepper sauce. This Reigate Caves found example will appear in BBR’s February WinterNational auction.
A standard sauce made the more remarkable with the swirly body swirls. Superb! (9/10) NR £20-30+
for the full article to blow up and read. A highly significant and important Reigate Caves find
- dug by Steve Narraway. (9.5/10) NR £400-
195. DADDIES SAUCE BOTTLE. 8.25ins tall. Aqua sheared lip long necked sauce with delightful striations from light olive green to amber
glass. Embossed to 3 sides DADDIES/ FAVOURTIRE/
SAUCE. MV/ 1 embossed to base. Minor lip flakes.
4 sided, circular and 2 with a spiral screw. Black transfers PORTOVASE with VAT & REG no etc - all slightly different. Minor inner lip chip to one.
Extraordinary & quite rare grdening related items. (5) (9.5/10) £30-40+
196. LARGE BOVRIL SHOP DISPLAY BOTTLE.
12ins tall. Black glass, paper labels to two flat sides, embossed BOVRIL/
LIMITED to two rounded sides. Inside lip chips. (9/10)
NR £80-120+