EARLY BERKSHIRE GINGER BEER BOTTLES

Ryott - Newbury

Martin Tanner has 2 important fragments of Ryott's Chemist bottles.  The second of these in particular looks to be of a ginger beer bottle and just reads "RYOTT".  The former reads "R A RYOTT, Chemist, NEWBURY" and could be a stout bottle but is difficult to be sure.  Apologies for the lack of quality of these 2 pictures.

From Pigot & Co.'s Directory of Berks, Bucks ... , 1844:

From Kelly's Berkshire Directory, 1848:

From Slater's Directory of Berkshire, 1852:

From Post Office Directory of Berks, Northants ... , 1854:

From Harrod & Co.'s Directory of Beds, Bucks ..., 1876:

Although Ryott's as a chemist were around for a long period it is difficult to ascertain when the 2 bottle fragments are from.  The first fragment (without the top) is difficult to say for definite that it is a ginger beer bottle.  It tends to be porter bottles that have the word "chemist" on them generally from my experience.  The second fragment is a ginger beer but the 'blob' top looks perhaps post-second industrial revolution perhaps around 1870 but could date from just before in my opinion.