Bottles Collection (page 10)

Wine bottles stored in a cellar, gathering dust. France

A cave carved out of rock to store Champagne in France

Kia-Ora advertisement, 1936
An advertisement for Kia-Ora Barley Lemon and Lime Cordial drinks. " These handsome modern bottles are full of good health-ideal for the sideboard and cocktail cabinet." Date: 1936

Lavender Bouquet
Bottle containing Lavender Bouquet, the pure product of the flowers of the celebrated Mitcham Lavender Fields, prepared by Curtis and Company, Phamaceutical Chemists, Baker St, London. Date: C.1895

Pub bar and landlord, Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex
Mr Bert Lindsell, the landlord of The Victory Pub in Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex, standing proudly behind his well-stocked bar. circa 1966

Eau de Cologne Tooth Powder prepared by Curtis and Company pharmaceutical chemists, London. Date: C.1895

Cockatoo undergoing surgery
A Japanese cockatoo in the hands of a surgeon at the Animals Hospital, Pimlico, London. The bird suffered from the inconvenience of an abnormally long beak. (NB: this is not a dead parrot) circa 1911

Cucumber cream
Cucumber Cream with lanoline for soft white hands, made by the Maioline Toilet Co. Date: C.1900

Crinisma hair preparation
Bottle containing Crinisma hair preparation, a substitute for oil, pomade and brilliantine. This preparation combines in itself the double properties of both a hair grease and stimulating wash

Resorcin hair tonic
Bottle containing Resorcin Hair Tonic for promoting a luxurious growth of the hair, made by Lewis and Burrows Ltd. Date: C.1900

Eau de Quinine Tonique
Bottle containing Eau de Quinine Tonique, for care and preservation of the hair. Made by Lewis and Burrows, London. Date: C.1900

Wine at the Berlin royal wedding, 1913
A very important arrival at the wedding of Princess Viktoria Luise of Prussia, only daughter of the Kaiser, to Prince Ernst of Cumberland: wine for the royal wedding banquet. Date: May 1913

The Princess Royals dressing case, a wedding gift to the bride from the Duchess of Kent, on the occasion of Victoria(Vicky)s marriage to Prince Frederick William of Prussia in 1858

Viennese Resraurant
Owing to the high price of electricity in Vienna, Austria, consumers have gone on stike, dining out in restaurants with candles burning from bottles! Date: 1933

Crosse & Blackwell - Vinegars and Oils
An assortment of condements mainly the bottles of vinegar and Oil made by Crosse and Blackwell, the illustration also shows various ingrediants of a salad such as tomatoes

Advert for Mappin & Webb hair brush sets
Advert for a fine Morocco leather vanity travelling case, completely fitted with a set of superfine enamel and silver-gilt toilet requisities, beautifuly engraved and cut glass toilet bottles

A Load of Rubbish
Looking down into a metal dustbin full of cans, bottles and other rubbish. 1960s

Advert for Christmas gift 4711 Eau de Cologne
The gift of many gifts. Genuine 4711 Eau de Cologne, blue & gold label. Date: 1934

Chinese Balloon Trick
A group of children watch a street entertainer perform a trick involving bottles and balloons! Date: 1930s

Prohibition Raid
Customs officials of the motor boat Marjorie seizing bottles of contraband champagne off Mont Auk Point, Long Island, New York, U.S.A. during the Prohibition. Date: 16 December 1929

Edecan Champagne
Sober women sorting bottles of Edecan Champagne, Mexico, South America. Date: 1930s

Liquid Lunch

Austro-Hungarian trench with gas bottles, WW1
Scene in an Austro-Hungarian trench during the First World War, with twenty steel chlorine gas bottles ready for use. Date: 1914-1918

Bottling Benedictine at Fecamp, France
Bottling Benedictine herbal liqueur at Fecamp, Normandy, France. The Salle d Etiquetage ( The Labelling Room ). Date: circa 1910s

Royal cipher of Elizabeth II at Carlsberg Breweries in Denma
The royal cipher in an unusual setting at the Carlsberg Breweries of Denmark. Nearly 5000 gold-topped bottles arranged to form the royal cipher E.R.I.I

Daily Mail Home Exhibition - Australian Wines
Daily Mail Home Exhibition - An exhibit promoting the wines of Australia Date: circa 1930s

Chile - Agricultural Labourers Camp
The customs of the agricultural labourers in Chile - a temporary camp where the men are spit-roasting meat and drinking Chilean wine. Date: circa 1910

Packing Beer Bottles
Women packing bottles of beer in an East London brewery. Date: 1965

Drinks in Baronial Hall
Rich man or poor man - they all like a drop to drink: three Scottish noblemen imbibe in a baronial hall. Date: late 18th century

Preparing Lab Slide 50S
A laboratory technician prepares a slide for bacteriological examination. Date: 1950s

Industry / Cork Cutter
Two french cork cutters cutting bark which is stripped from the cork tree, into a variety of small round cylindrical pieces for stopping bottles. Date: circa 1760

Two Gents Drinking C1860
Two smart-looking gents at a London bar counter, one with a short, the other with a stout and bitter; if they get peckish, there are sandwiches under a glass dome. Date: circa 1860

Glass Factory
Making bottles in a glass factory, France. Date: 1862

A wonderful view
Oh, Harold, how wonderful! And to think we forgot the glasses. " Well, my dear, can t we drink out of the bottles?" A mountaineering couple admire the view at the end of a long climb

Metropolitan Police scientific investigator
A Metropolitan Police scientific investigator examining evidence from a crime scene

Banquet aboard H. M.s Wellington
Entertainment to Admiral Dundas, on board H.M.S Wellington of the Baltic Fleet

Marlene Dietrich by Tony Wysard
Subtitled Gilding the Lily, a caricature of film actress Marlene Dietrich gazing at her reflection in the mirror while at a dressing table littered with numerous bottles and pots of cosmetics

Suburban Sunday in the back garden
A suburban Sunday in the back garden. Mother and son keep cool with bottles of drink, while the dog laps up a glass of Caribbean lemonade. Dad, overheated, gives himself a break from mowing the lawn

Two couples enjoying a champagne picnic
Two couples, one young, one middle aged, , enjoying a champagne picnic in front of a stone wall

Family and car in the desert, Middle East
A mother and her two children, together with grandparents, perch at the side of their car in the desert, somewhere in the Middle East

Nurse at the Medical Centre, Hendon
Scene at the Metropolitan Police Medical Centre, Hendon, north west London, with a nurse selecting medicines from a cupboard, while referring to a checklist on a clipboard

Bawarchi (Cook) - India - he is breaking an egg into a copper pan

Wagon laden with fiasco Chianti bottles
Unloading bottles of Chianti - Tuscany, Italy. Chianti was (for many many years) historically associated with these squat bottles enclosed in a straw basket (called a fiasco )

Bottling of Mares Milk (Kumis)
Russia - the bottling of Kumis by a Muslim family. Kumis is a fermented dairy product traditionally made from horses (mare s) milk

Winemaking equipment, Camara de Lobos, Madeira, Portugal
An antique object used in the making of wine, in the showroom of Henriques & Henriques SA, Camara de Lobos, near Funchal, Madeira, Portugal

Boudoir Beauty by Charles Robinson
A lady at her toilette is brought yet more bottles and boxes to add to the rather lavish collection already in her dressing room

Tunisia - Arab Grocer
Arab Grocer in Tunis, Tunisia. Some of the items for sale include hand brushes, vegetables, candles, bottles containing drinks or potions, sieves, pans, baskets and rope

Three-wheeler milkfloat
A Milkman on his morning round, fills up a crate from his vintage yet stylish three-wheeled float. This model is a Norwich Dairy milk electric, (DP Kathanode battery operated) delivery float

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