Object number
63/12
Creator
Description
This is a glass lemonade bottle with a marble stopper. The front is embossed with 'W. Hankinson // Trademark // Runcorn' and the back with 'Cannington, Shaw & Co. // Makers // St. Helens'. Hankinsons were mineral water manufactuers who dealt with sodas, lemonade etc. in Runcorn 1870– c.1912, and Cannignton, Shaw & Co. were glass bottle manufacturers. The marble stopper design was first patented by Hiram Codd in 1875.
Physical description
1 bottle: green tinted glass; good condition
Archival history
MERL ‘Miscellaneous note’, Country Life, July 23 1964, Vol. 136, No. 3516 – ‘The aerated liquid bottle (first made in stoneware, later in glass) was patented by Hiram Codd, Grove Lane, Camberwell, Surrey, on October 8, 1875, under the title of “Manufacture of earthenware Bottles for containing Aerated or Effervescing Liquids”. The specification of the patent begins as follows: “The bottles to be closed by a globular stopper held by the pressure within against an elastic ring contained in a groove formed around the neck of the bottle: also making the mouth of such bottles smaller than the ball itself so that it cannot escape from the bottle… The shoulder of the bottle or that part where the neck joins the body is made at right angles, or nearly so, with the body, so that in emptying a bottle the ball having been pushed back from the mouth shall not roll back to it but shall be arrested by the shoulder. // During the next ten years Hiram Codd was granted 46 further patents concerning improvements to his bottle: in 1885 he took out nine patents and in 1886 a further eight, and these were the last. One granted in 1882 shows that the name ws not moulded in relief upon these bottles until that year. – ED.’
Production place
Saint Helens
Production date
1875 - 1925
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Material
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External document
- L:\MERL\Objects\JISC 2012\60 series negatives\60_4371.tif - High resolution image
- L:\MERL\Objects\JISC 2012\60 series negatives\60_4372.tif - High resolution image
