Lot 606: Two English Two-Tone Salt-Glazed Stoneware Botanical Beverage Bottles for Fentiman and Son and Brownson's

Two English two-tone salt-glazed stoneware botanical beverage bottles. The first is a large flagon featuring a loop handle and a narrow neck fitted with a metal screw-top stopper. The body is finished in a two-tone glaze with a dark tan shoulder over a textured buff-coloured lower portion. The shoulder features black transfer-printed text reading THOS. FENTIMAN & SON / BOTANICAL BREWERS / PERSEVERANCE WORKS, SUFFIELD STREET. / MIDDLESBORO’ / AND GATESHEAD. Further text on the body states This Bottle is the property of / Thomas Fentiman & Son, any / person damaging or illegally / detaining it will be prosecuted / PLEASE INSERT CORK WHEN EMPTY / 1930.

The second item is a small cylindrical bottle with a dark brown neck and shoulder over a tan-coloured body. The front bears an oval black transfer-printed label featuring a central sunburst emblem with a banner inside reading ABOVE. The text around the emblem reads BROWNSON’S at the top and ECCLES at the base, with the central text reading SARSAPARILLA / AND DANDELION / STOUT. An impressed circular mark is located near the base and reads PEARSONS / L / CHESTERFIELD.