66/8/19

Codnor Park Pottery (Manufacturer)

This is a large brown glazed stoneware ginger beer bottle, which was found with a large collection of bottles of horse potions. They were uncovered during the demolition of a blacksmith's forge in Great Shelford. It has an incised manufacturer's stamp, indicating that it was made at Codnor Park Potteries, near Derby.

1 bottle: stoneware; good condition

MERL ‘Handwritten Accession’ form - ‘66/8/1-48 // Accession 66/8 // Veterinary Preparations // This group of objects classified under LIVESTOCK veterinary // Photographed Nos: 60/10808-60/10815 // These objects all re-photographed as follows and negative cards put under subsidiary // 66/8/19 Bottle, ginger beer, TRADES PROFESSIONS grocer.’, MERL ‘Handwritten Accession’ (Institute of Agricultural History) - ‘ Bottle, Ginger Beer // LIVESTOCK- Veterinary/ Trades- Prof- Grocer // Description: Large brown glazed stone ginger beer bottle. It bears an incised manufacturer’s stamp which reads as follows: “FREOUS STONE BOTTLES &c. WARRANTED NOT TO ABSORB. J.BOURNE, PANTENTEE.- ANDRY & CODNOR PARL POTTERY, NEAR DERBY // Dimensions: Base dia 6.5cm Height 16.9cm // Found in the Forger with veterinary bottles at Gt. Shelford, Cambs.”

Derbyshire

Ceramic, stoneware, Glaze

Fired, Glazed