Historical information

Walter Sheldrick, a butcher and publican, established the Warrnambool New Brewery at the corner of Timor and Fairy Streets in 1868 as a company. The business was known as Sheldrick and Co. and after Walter Sheldrick’s death his son, Richard, managed the company until his death in 1893. In 1894 the business was sold to John McGee and Company until this firm sold to the Ballarat, Melbourne, Co-operative and Carlton and United Breweries in 1922. This Pale Ale bottle, therefore, was bottled before 1922.

Significance

This bottle is of considerable significance as it is one of the last products of a prominent brewery in Warrnambool and is now nearly 100 years old

Physical description

This is a brown-coloured glass beer bottle with a long neck and no stopper

Inscriptions & markings

On oval shaped paper label ‘Sparkling Pale Ale, Sheldrick and Co. Brewers, Sheldrick’s Warrnambool, Vic. Aus. Bottled at the Brewery, Timor St. Keep in a cold place’.
Monogram, ‘S.C.O.’
‘M.B.C.V’ embedded in glass in clover leaf motif and underneath ‘The Property of the Manufacturers, Bottle Company of Victoria Pty Ltd’