Historical information

This bottle contained castor oil or cod-liver oil and has a hand finished top. It would have been bought at a local chemist or in a larger city on a shopping expedition.

Significance

Historical: Found inside the walls of a Tawonga South farm house having been left there when the house was being built.
Change of bottles - shape, glass stopper, manufacture and use.
Aesthetic: Display showing shape and colour due to the affect of sunlight.

Physical description

Clear glass bottle with manganese/purple tinge caused by sunlight. Hand finished top. Joins in glass on each side but not continuing to opening. Straight sides from the base to a little more than half way up. Sharp taper to neck which is straight and long to lip and opening. Cork stopper.

Inscriptions & markings

Bubbles in glass.