a few bottles i found today
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11 Aug 2012 08:00 PM  

 here are 6 bottles i found today, 2 i believe are genuine but the others seem to have a bit of age to them, until i turned them over and they are printed "made in england" underneath?

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11 Aug 2012 08:01 PM  
sorry mistype, 5 bottles
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13 Aug 2012 01:37 PM  
Hi there. They date to the 1930's and sell for between 2 and 4 quid each.

Good finds.

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13 Aug 2012 07:27 PM  

 thanks for the info, they have a good home in my rockery with a few stone water bottles and a polinaris ; )

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13 Aug 2012 09:06 PM  
wots a polinaris?
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13 Aug 2012 09:08 PM  

 a dutch gin bottle, unsure about the spelling, but pronounced poly-narr-iss

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13 Aug 2012 09:37 PM  
thanks for that bridkid, I thought it was a flower .
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13 Aug 2012 09:43 PM  
Its mineral water I think?
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13 Aug 2012 10:34 PM  

Its Apollinaris ! 

German mineral water

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14 Aug 2012 08:38 AM  

 mine is a stone gin bottle, name is stamped apollinaris, is there more examples of them then? i take it the mineral is a glass bottle.

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14 Aug 2012 07:36 PM  
No the stoneware bottles are for mineral water NOT gin !
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