Items wanted & swaps available.

We are always looking for items to fill gaps in our collections. We will buy items but we both also have quality swaps available.

Items wanted.

1. Impressed or slab sealed stoneware stouts, porters and flasks from Lincolnshire, north Nottinghamshire, or York.

2. Flints Friendly Oils, Buxton, with Codnor Park pottery mark.

3. British hinge mould or pontilled patent medicine bottles.

Damage is acceptable on these items if priced accordingly! There's quite a lot of detail about this one, which is why it's been left until last.

Especially looking for any embossed or labelled with the words:

... or with the following names:

and many others. If in doubt, please drop Jerry a line.

Does anyone have a bottle, early or late, embossed or labelled for 'Godfrey's Cordial' or 'Steer's Opodeldoc', or any boxes, packets or labels for Anderson's Scot's Pills or Hoopers Female Pills, that they will sell or swap?

Darren is particularly looking for variations of Dalby's Carminative bottles, both pontilled and smooth base types.

Jerry even collects badly damaged examples (or even fragments) of interesting early medicine bottles, such as the two late 18th century examples in the photo below:

We are also looking for Labels, Pamphlets, Trade cards, Leaflets, Flyers, Tax Stamps, Almanacs and Posters for British patent medicines.

Swaps Available:

We have a large number of swaps available. Below are listed some examples. Please contact us to find out more:

Items below available as swaps for early British pontilled or hinge mould medicines:

i) Dr Solomon's Cordial Balm of Gilead. Large (33 shilling) size. Mid to dark olive green. Has been given a light polish back to full surface gloss, but retains some slight pitting in places. Otherwise in excellent condition. One of the best two or three examples, out of the total of only 6 or 7 known. An extremely rare example of one of the classic Georgian patent medicine bottles.

This is not for sale. It's only available as a swap for other rare early pontiled cures. I'm particularly looking for a pontilled Websters cerevisia anglicana, and rare variations on early Daffy's Elixir bottles (for example, I would swap this bottle for two dark glass, early, pontilled Daffy's of exceptional quality, or one such Daffy's and an aqua or pale green Websters), but I would also consider any other realistic suggestions or combinations.

Sorry : This bottle is no longer available!

ii). A number of slab sealed and other early stoneware bottles and flasks including: Slab sealed reform flask from Horncastle in Lincolnshire, pub named Caudle flask, unusually small size dark salt glaze Victoria and Albert flask, slab sealed flasks and porters from Lincolnshire, Nottinghamshire and Yorkshire, early slip glazed and salt glazed flasks and porters from Lincolnshire, Nottinghamshire (the small flask from Retford, on the right hand side of the photograph below is now SWAPPED, and no longer available) and East Yorkshire (and one from Suffolk), salt glazed hamilton from Bathgate / Calcutta, several early impressed and slab sealed flagons ranging from 1 quart to 4 gallon capacity, and various other items.

iii). Green 4-way (Dobson type) codd from J. T. Shardlow of Worksop. 10oz size. No chips or cracks, some light internal haze which would clean with a light tumble. One of only four known examples (one of which is badly cracked!). SWAPPED, & no longer available.

iv). Transferred stoneware and pot lids. Mint condition 2-tone pictorial champagne shape ginger beer from East Brothers of Louth (East Brothers ginger beer is now SWAPPED, and no longer available), transferred flask from Beetham of Doncaster, blue transfer ginger beer from Bellamy Bros of Grimsby and Louth. Dandriff Pomade pot lid from Sheffield, several pot lids from Atkinson, and Fletcher, of Retford.