Bottle Collection (page 19)

Cartoon, The Bottling Season, WW1
Cartoon, The Bottling Season, now is the time to bottle fruit and other things. Showing a smiling British sailor of HMS Alert sitting on a glass jar containing battleships labelled as Preserves

Scene from Miss Hook of Holland, an English musical comedy with music and lyrics by Paul Rubens, book by Austen Hurgon and Rubens

Ascot race plate: Queen Victorias gift of a gold vase, 1874
The Queens gold vase, given by Queen Victoria as a prize for one of the Ascot races in 1874. A large gold flagon in the style of Queen Annes time, made by R. & S. Garrard & Co. Date: 1874

Gays Lion Farm, El Monte, California, USA, showing Mrs Gay feeding the lion cub Bamboola with milk from a bottle. Date: 20th century

Advertisement for Savory & Moores Food for the Happy Baby. Showing a healthy looking baby drinking from a bottle. Date: 1914

Advertisement for Meltonian Shoe Polishes, supplied by E Brown & Son of Garrick Street, London. They may not be advertising for a while because of the war

Smelling fragrance
An elegant lady brings her nostrils close to a scent bottle proffered no doubt by a persuasive sales assistant at a beauty counter. Date: 1955

Pencil sketch of baby with bottle
Pencil sketch of a baby with a bottle. Date: 1920s

Maid with tray of drinks
Harlequin illustration, showing a maid with a tray of drinks. Date: 1923

Pinocchio -- ill in bed
Pinocchio -- The doctors came immediately... a Crow, an Owl, and a Talking Cricket. Date: 1911

Nursery Rhymes -- Old Mother Hubbard, Peter Piper
Nursery Rhymes. Old Mother Hubbard (above) -- She went to the tavern for white wine and red, and when she came back the dog stood on his head

Business card design, man carrying bottles
Business card design, depicting a smiling man carrying several bottles of wine in two baskets. Date: 20th century

Business card design, bell boy with perfume bottle
Business card design, depicting a hotel bell boy in a red uniform carrying a large bottle of perfume on a green cushion. Date: 20th century

Business card design, bell boy with bottle
Business card design, depicting a small hotel bell boy in a green uniform carrying a large red bottle. Date: 20th century

Four soldiers enjoying beer near Okehampton, Devon
Four soldiers enjoying a glass (or bottle) of beer near Okehampton, Devon. Date: 1940s

Copenhagen, Denmark - Tuborg Pavilion
Copenhagen, Denmark - The Tuborg Pavilion, with the distinctive giant bottle of Tuborg beer! Date: circa 1904

Advert for Clarkes babies food warmer 1913
Bootle-fed babies are fed by night with a minimum of trouble where a Clarkes Food warmer is used. It heats liquid foods and keeps them warm throughout the night

Advert for hot water bottles for wounded soldiers
Presents, practical and seasonable, for your invaild friend or wounded soldier. Hot water bottles, with H. & G. C. C. mark - recognised as the mark of reliability in foremost hospitals in the world

WW1 - Men in uniform having a picnic - Mesoptamian Front?
Three men in uniform having a picnic in a barren landscape, watched by a dog - possibly on the Mesoptamian Front during WW1 Date: circa 1916

WW1 - Men in uniform with a car
WW1 - Men in uniform drinking beer at the side of a car in a barren / desert landscape, possibly on the Mesopotamian Front? Date: circa 1916

Advert by Asprey compact dressing case 1937
Cases for light weight travel complete and compact. Date: 1937

Advert for Royal Vinolia perfume 1912
Royal Vinolia perfume, essence of flowers and sweet grasses. 1912

Advert for Votrix Vermouth 1951
Votrix Vermouth Advert showing a couple drinking Date: 1951

Playing with Tiddlers
A little boy and girl peer into the milk bottle of tiddlers they ve just netted! Date: 1950s

Making a Glass Bottle
A young man in a British glass factory, finishing off a freshly blown glass bottle. Date: 1933

Advertisement for McVitie biscuits -- models posing as mother and two children (Jane Hancock, Merrill Colbrook and John Moulder Brown). 1959

Argentina - Indigenous Tribesmen roll a bottle tree trunk
Argentina - Indigenous Indian Tribesmen on the Pilcomayo River roll a bottle tree trunk. Date: circa 1930s

Prairie wigwam - home to an indigenous Mother and Uncle
Prairie wigwam - home to the indigenous mans Mother and Uncle, both of whom peep out of suitable holes in the decorated canvas covering. It looks as if the Uncle has already hit the bottle

United we Stand, Devided we fall! A Sailor, a soldier and a Policeman stagger home arm in arm from the fair. Date: circa 1909

Gentleman wines and dines his lady in style but at low cost
How can you do it? Gentleman wines and dines his lady in style at Belmonicos but at low cost, as he only earns $8.75 a week ! Date: 1912

A rather unpopular sporting character - late Victorian era - known a Poison Date: 1896

Little girl approaching pub bar to ask for Brandy
A Large Order. Little Girl - " Three penn orth o Brandy an I want a cork; an will ye wash the bottle out, cos its ad milk in it." Date: 1895

Vagrant couple on Satutday night - drawing by Phil May
In the Bars and Streets. Cartoon drawing by Phil May depicting an elderly, ragged vagrant couple on Saturday Night - their only solace a bottle of something strong. Date: circa 1890s

A Back Country Doctor in his Surgery - Australian Outback -combining the facilities of a chemist, doctor, pharmacist and veterinary! Date: circa 1910

Light Unshaded! Blackout rebels bribe official
An Upper Class Party is disturbed by an official complaining about the non-blackout of this London address during WWI. The host is furiously apologising

Auguste, the First Elephant ever born in France
First Elephant ever born in France - named Auguste - on 5th August 1936 at Douai. Baptised with Champagne by the unlikely combination of pachyderm Admirers, Maurice Chevalier and Josephine Baker!!

Postcard ticket for a free sample of Cologne - The Cathedral. Date: circa 1910s

A Man of Ticino re-fills his water bottle - Switzerland. Canton Ticino or just Ticino is the southernmost canton of Switzerland

Young Egyptian woman holding an amphora
An extremely odd artistic photographic postcard showing a young Egyptian woman holding an amphora close to her naked breast

Christmas card in the shape of a jug in a basket
Christmas card in the shape of a jug in a wickerwork basket. Date: circa 1890s

Christmas card in the shape of medicines
Christmas card in the shape of a bottle of medicine and boxes of pills for various ailments. circa 1890s

Christmas card in the shape of a basket of wine bottles
Christmas card in the shape of a wickerwork basket full of wine bottles. circa 1890s

Medicine bottle found in a childs coffin during the archaeological excavation at Christ Church, Spitalfields, London, 1984-1986

Advertisement sign for absinthe Mugnier, 1895
" Advertisement sign for absinthe " Mugnier", 1895. Engraving."

Spain (1813). Peninsular War. Expulsion of Joseph Bonaparte. Engraving. SPAIN. Madrid. National Library

Glass, plate, bowl and bottle. Roman art. Glass and Crystal. SPAIN. Barcelona. Archaeology Museum of Catalonia

Double ointment bottle. Roman art. SPAIN. Barcelona. Archaeology Museum of Catalonia

Advert for 4711 Eau de Cologne 1931
Let the inspiration of 4711 guide your choice this gift time.... let the inimitable fragrance of this really genuine Eau de Cologne pay sincere tribute to beauty. Date: 1931

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