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This is a ceramic ginger beer bottle, which was manufactured by the Denby potteries in Derbyshire. It was found with veterinary bottles at a forge in Great Shelford, Cambridgeshire.
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1 bottle: stoneware; good condition
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MERL ‘Handwritten Accession’ form (Institute of Agricultural History) - ‘ Bottle, Ginger Beer // LIVESTOCK- Veterinary, Trades- Professions- Grocer // RC Lambeth Rural Industries Organiser, Cambs // Buff coloured store ginger-beer bottle. It has an incised of manufacturer’s inscription near the base which reads: “WALTER & DENBY POTTERIES, DERBYSHIRE. FITREOUS STONE BOTTLES &c. J.BOURNE PATENTEE, WARRANTED NOT TO ABSORB, EX8”// Dimensions: Base dia 6.8cm, Height 16.5cm // Associated information: This is an example of an early 19th century ginger beer/ lemonade bottle. The Denby Potteries were founded in 1809 by Joseph Bourne, and made domestic drinking vessels, spirit flasks and other ware in a light-brown salt-glazed stoneware (see Hughes, B. & T. 'The Collectors' Encyclopaedia of English Ceramics p 60). Manufacturers of this type of ware were quick to see the potential for advertising; in the late 1900's they began to use transfers, but the earliest examples have incised or stamped inscriptions like this one (see Fletcher, E. 'Bottle Collecting' pp. 52, 57, 60).’
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1800-01-01 - 1824-12-31
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Early-nineteenth century
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