My Berkshire Stone Ginger Beer Collection

Quine's Poison Bottles

 

Unfortunately so far I have only managed to collect one 2oz Quine's Poison:

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Quine's poison bottles or more correctly Quine's "Drop" poison bottles are not a common bottle.  They are only found in aqua and more rarely in ice blue.  They are known in 4 sizes from 1oz to 8oz.  2oz and 4oz are the most commonly found sizes

 

It has a Patent no. of 14553 dated 28th July 1893.  This is assumed to be the patent number of this bottle but actually the patent registration is quite different to the actual bottle that appears to have been produced.  The patent bottle is much flatter with the word poison on the top of the bottle.

 

The wording on the bottle above is as follows:

 

Colour:  Ice blue / has broken lip

One side:  POISON on shoulder

Other side:  POISON on shoulder

Back end:  blank

Front end:  blank

Bottom:  2oz

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