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  • Collection: Bottles

Ungemach's Stoneware Beer Bottle

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Two-tone, cream and brown, Chilean stoneware beer bottle.The bottle is stamped:'PREMIADO MEDALLA DE LA EXHIBICIÓN DE SANTIAGO 1872 / A. UNGEMACH Y CÍA, QUILLOTA.Translated as: Awarded Medal at the Santiago Exhibition, 1872 / A[dam] Ungemach and Co.,…

Black Glass Ale/Beer Bottle

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26 oz., black glass (dark olive green) ale, porter, stout or beer bottle. Mould-blown in three-pieces, with a flat, key-moulded base, and a ring-sealed top. Squat shape with rounded shoulders. No identifying marks.

Stoneware Stout/Porter Bottle

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26 oz., stoneware stout or porter bottle with wire wrap top (corked top would have been secured with wire and a lead seal wrapper). Single tone, vitreous cream salt glaze or Bristol glaze (using zinc-oxide feldspathic glaze).No identifying marks.

Cognac/Brandy Bottle

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26 oz., light green glass spirit bottle (cognac or brandy) with ring seal top.No identifying marks.

Olive Glass Spirit Bottle

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26 oz., olive glass spirit bottle. Three-piece mould blown, wired cork stopper. Number "3" on base of bottle. (Manufactuers used to number their bottle moulds, so that they could be identified and replaced when they were worn or defective). No other…

Case Gin Bottle

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26 oz., olive glass, case gin bottle. Square with short neck and wrap-top, inwards taper at the base. Free-blown construction using a dip-mould. No other identifying marks, but a typical bottle found in the colony of Queensland in the 1870s.

Udolpho Wolfe's Aromatic Schnapps Bottle

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Green glass schnapps bottle. Square in section, with stopper seal. Embossed on three sides with the words: 'UDOLPHO WOLFE's' / 'AROMATIC SCHNAPPS' / 'SCHIEDAM'

Stoneware Stout/Porter Bottle

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Stoneware stout or porter bottle with wired cork top (the cork would have been secured in the bottle top with a wire wrap and then covered with a lead seal wrapper).Single tone, vitreous cream salt glaze or Bristol glaze (using zinc-oxide feldspathic…

Dark Brown Stoneware Stout/Porter Bottle

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Stoneware stout or porter bottle with wired cork top (the cork would have been secured in the bottle top with a wire wrap and then covered with a lead seal wrapper).Single tone, vitreous dark brown salt glaze or Bristol glaze (using zinc-oxide…