Page 7 - Bottles, Early Pottery & Pot Lids

17.
BROSGROVE
HYBRID
BOTTLE.
8ins long,
aqua
glass. Well
embossed
front
CORBETT
& CO/
BROMS-
GROVE,
bird in
shield
pict. .m.
elephant
atop.
Cannington
Shaw makers
to reverse.
A scare 6oz
Worcestershire
mineral. Exc/ A1. 9.7/10.
NR. £80-120+
19. DRIFFIELD
HAMILTON
BOTTLE. 9ins long, aqua
glass. Octagonal facetted
10oz hamilton, 4 lightly
embossed panels: JACKSONS/
LEMONADE/ & SODA WATER/
DRIFFIELD. Lightly polished but
a rare East Riding Town mineral.
8/10. NR. £20-30+
16. BIRMINGHAM
HYBRID BOTTLE.
8ins tall, aqua
glass. Elaborate
front embossing,
lots of lettering
with entwined
initials t.m. BIRM
SYPHON CO CO
above, repeated
(infull) around
t.m. Dan Rylands
Patent Safe
Groove 4, Barnsley
to reverse. Very
minor marks/ wear,
no damages. 9/10.
NR. £60-80+
15. STOURBRIDGE & BROMSGROVE
HYBRID BOTTLE. 7.8ins long, aqua
glass. COREBETT & WYATT above
a large pestle & mortar pict. t.m.,
STOURBRIDGE/ AND/ BROMSGROVE
below. Cannington Shaw makers to
rear. Some surface marks but no
damages. 8.9/10. NR. £80-120+
20. CALCUTTA BLUE HAMILTON. 9.5ins long, crude blob lip. Mid
blue glass with four heavily embossed lines of embossing TREBLE
AERATED/ SMITH STANISTREET/ & CO/ CALCUTTA. Presented
as dug, uncleaned, side of lip neck hairline, displays fine, full
sheen. 7.5/10. NR. £60-80+
18. RETFORD BULB NECK PATENT. 9.5ins long, aqua
glass. An extraordinary octagonal facetted hamilton shape,
three panels well embossed: W UNSWORTH/ GROVE
STREET/ RETFORD, curve pattern to pointed end. Diana
Snowden provided some background: William Unsworth
traded as a soda & aerated water manufacturer, ale & porter
merchant, postmaster, wedding & funeral proprietor, furniture
remover & owner of the Turks Head, Grove Street, East
Retford. Early documentation accords the business was said
to have formed in 1847. Initially, William traded alone but
by 1876 was in partnership with Samuel Baker the business
becoming Unsworth & Baker. However
the partnership ended in 1884, William Unsworth trading
independently. He died in 1905 leaving effects totalling
£15,912-172 3d. After his death, in stepped daughter Emily,
who continued the business until 1928 when it was taken over
by Messrs. Ward & Sons of Swinton who retained the name of
W. Unsworth planning to retain all the customers from the ‘old
firm’. The Turks Head in Grove Street still stands today in
all its glory after being rebuilt on the original
site in 1939 - still proudly
retaining a coaching
arch. A very rare
early mineral patent.
Exc/A1. 9.5/10. NR.
£120-150+
the Midlands
hybrid trio