Friday, 31 May Hairbrush. I found the remains of a hairbrush a few months ago, almost didn't pick it up. It took me back to another word - the London cottage industry of brush drawing - which sounds more romantic than it evidently was.
Labels: Bone , Mudlarking all of it , Victorian I put down the first piece of stoneware I found, thinking the little bit of writing wasn't worth it. A few minutes later found a similar larger shard with a lot more, I went back ten feet to retrieve the discarded piece and as I suspected they slotted together. A fortnight later I found the missing middle fragment in the same place.
It's German and probably held mineral water. Produced for Georg Kreuzber, a wine merchant from Ahrweiler who in s began bottling mineral water from the Apollinaris spring. By 40, bottles had been dispatched across the globe. The refinery shut in The rather crude and imperfect incised stamp has a circular inscription 'Apollinaris-Brunnen M-W'. Inside appears a boaty logo and below 'Georg Kreuzberg, Ahrweiler, Rheinpreussen'. A clearer picture of the logo on another bottle Georg Kreuzberg Mineral Bottle Etsy There seem to be quite a few German mineral water bottles scattered along the Thames and a number of different companies.
Others have suggested these bottles contained gin and this type continued to be produced until the s. I tracked down a picture of one with the label intact.
Exported to the States seemingly from London with their offices at 19 Regent Street, this rather salty mineral water must have been a hit. Labels: Mudlarking all of it , Stoneware , Victorian Friday, 17 May Samian Ware. You always find something special. Find of the day this time was my first Roman samian ware - nearly years old.
