My Berkshire Stone Ginger Beer Collection

Amber Lewis & Towers Practical Poison Bottles

 

I have only found two 2oz amber Lewis & Towers Practical poison bottles so far:

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Amber Lewis & Towers Practical Poison Bottles

 

The "practical poison bottle" comes in many sizes and colours.  Blue, green, amber, near black, aqua and clear glass bottles are recorded.  There are lip variations depending on the age of the bottle including: normal, wide-mouth, ones for retaining a glass stopper, a Corbyn type lip and even a rare shear lip version.  Normally the bottles appear with warning hob-nail crosses although more rarely they have warning ribs.  There are also Non-UK versions of this bottle although these are not technically the L&T design.

 

It has a Patent no. of 334871 dated 6th March 1899.

 

The bottles from left to right above are as follows:

 

1)  Variation:  Corbyn type lip, later 2 piece mould bottle (normally 3), cork

     On Front:  NOT TO BE TAKEN

     On Back:  blank

     On Bottom:  Various sets of numbers that are indistinguishable

2)  Variation:  Standard lip, ground glass stopper

     On Front:  NOT TO BE TAKEN

     On Back:  blank

     On Bottom:  2oz

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