Blue Lewis & Towers Practical Poison Bottles

There are many variations on the 2oz blue Lewis & Towers Practical poison bottles:

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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 (see amber version) 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 in picture 1 above are as follows:

1)  Variation:  Wide mouth version with hob-nails

     On Front:  NOT TO BE TAKEN

     On Back:  RD NO 334871

     On Bottom: 2

2)  Variation:  Later type, ribbed version, rounded lip, cork

     On Front:  NOT TO BE TAKEN

     On Back:  blank

     On Bottom:  blank

3)  Variation:  Normal type, hob-nails, square lip, cork

     On Front:  NOT TO BE TAKEN

     On Back:  RD NO 334871

     On Bottom:  2oz

4)  Variation:  Non-UK version, hob-nails, elongated neck and flared lip, cork

     On Front:  2oz DO NOT TAKE

     On Front in hobnails:  POISON

     On Front in hobnails:  USE WITH CAUTION

     On Back:  blank

     On Bottom:  O. C. P. 

The bottle in picture 2 above are as follows:

1)  Variation:  Normal type, hob-nails, square lip, cork

     On Front:  NOT TO BE TAKEN

     On Back:  blank

     On Bottom:  AEGIS / 2 (with A and E combined into one letter)