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66/8/20
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This is a brown 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 a manufacturer's msark, indicating that it was made at Denby Potteries, Derbyshire.
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1 bottle: stoneware; good condition
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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 // 66/8/21 Bottle, ginger beer, TRADES PROFESSIONS grocer.’, MERL ‘Handwritten Accession’ (Institute of Agricultural History) - ‘ Bottle, Ginger Beer // LIVESTOCK- Veterinary/ Trades- Prof- Grocer // Description: brown stone ginger beer bottle. It bears an incised manufacturer’s stamp which reads as follows: “BELPER & DERBY POTTERIES, DERBYSHIRE VITREOUS STONE BOTTLES. J.BOURNE, PANTENTEEE WARRANTED NOT TO ABSORB. EX 3”// Dimensions: Base dia 6.5cm Height 16.4cm // Found in the Forger with veterinary bottles at Gt. Shelford, Cambs.”
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Derbyshire
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- L:\MERL\Objects\JISC 2012\60 series negatives\60_14299.tif - High resolution image