The catalogue includes twenty-one diverse types of bottles ranging from beer, soft drink and chutney bottles to bottles designed to hold perfume, medicines and poisons. They appear to range in date from the nineteenth to c.mid-twentieth centuries and represent various types of mass-produced consumer goods that were commonly available at the time. The five different types of bottles included in 0156.5 are made of clear glass with tapered necks and narrow openings to facilitate pouring. One can be positively identified as an imported mineral soda water/soft drink bottle because of the marble stopper in the neck and thickness of the glass. The globe-stopper bottle, also known as a ‘Codd’ bottle, was invented by English engineer, Hiram Codd in 1873 for holding gaseous soft drinks. The thick glass could withstand the pressure of the contents as well as repeated bottling by manufacturers. The bottles were probably used by former lightkeeper households. and tapered, narrow necks. The older ‘porter’ has a slightly bulbous neck. The bottles were probably used by former lightkeeper residents. Five glass bottles. Four are clear glass and one has coloured to green.

Boxed Eau de Cologne Bottle - Potter & Moore's 'Blue Ribbon' brand, with screw and shaped 'gold' cap. Folded paper insert in box - 4 page catalog of Potter & Moore gifts (Mitcham Lavender and 'Christmas Gift Specials'). Australian Distributors - W J Bush & Co. Ltd. Pencil inscription on catalog 6/6 Patterned silver covering to box.. Item has a pin (hat?) pin and hair pin included (no relevance to P & M).personal effects, containers, perfume

this item was a thirteenth birthday present to Mary Beatrice Lydia Ashford from her father, Captain Charles Ashford of the Port Phillip Pilots Association in 1900. It was re-gifted to her grand-daughter on her thirteenth birthday in 1960.Decorative glass bottle, secured glass stopper containing musk perfume presented in a floral, papered box with pink ribbon and braiding. Interior of box is lined with pink silk."Vinolia" is printed on the silk inside top of boxvinolia, perfume, ashford