was simply called "flint" (Hunter 1950). Improved chemistry and glass making methods of the late 19th

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From as small as 80mm to 160mm ginger pots are fascinating and each one uniquely different to the next. lavender color was produced purposefully (with a UV light or radiation) so it is not always possible to The ubiquitous Holbrook & Co. Worchestershire Sauce was widely used at the turn of the last century.One of only 4 known coloured S.A. Codds. The other 3 being from the Shilling Factory Kimberley and A.T. Chambers East London. No dig is successful nor collection complete without the most well know of all "blue bottles", the castor oil.

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When considering a value to be placed on an item, please remember that condition plays a vital role, making a perfect specimen of say a S. Maw & Son, White Rose Toothpaste Lid with crisp print and gold band intact, worth as much as a scarcer lid in poor condition. perfume/cologne bottles, druggist bottles during any time period, and poison bottles. (Covill 1971; Wilson Imperial Tobacco Co of S.A. embossed .4460. on bottom. One of very few recorded S.A. Snuff bottles other than Otto Landsberg. J.E. Miller Dispensing Chemist. Grahamstown. Only 3 known examples. I went to school in Grahamstown but do not recall this chemist.To find any blue glass bottle embossed with a product or owners name is unusual, making all of the examples above scarce... however some are scarcer than others.

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A more unusual octagonal chemists bottle embossed "not to be taken". This is an 8oz example, one of a series of 12 different sizes.

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This dolls head taken from a lesser known Kimberley dump is c .1885 and appears almost Afrikana in the form of the Kappetjie. decolorizer for glass made in open glass tanks (versus the earlier closed pots) which was used with most all automatic