Container - Bottle, Gin, excavated from cesspit behind All England Eleven Hotel, Port Melbourne, 1850s - 1880s

Historical information

When house at 282 Rouse Street was demolished in November 1997, Peter Libbis obtained this from the bottle diggers who emptied the former cesspit behind All England Eleven Hotel.

Physical description

Gin bottle c1850-60s, English? Dug from cesspit behind All England Eleven Hotel, in Little Princes lane (ref photos of cesspit excavation 895). Pale green, punted, encrusted.

Inscriptions & markings

'B 10'

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