Site visitor Dr Jim Rickard has kindly provided us with images of Wilkinson’s bottles from his personal collection. The notes are Dr Rickard’s.
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Bottle 1: A pint capacity pop bottle, date around 1920-1930
Bottle 2: A pint capacity pop bottle, very similar to the first one but I would date it as the sucessor to Bottle 1, date 1930s.
Bottle 3: A 1/3 pint capacity pop bottle, probably 1930s or 1940s embossed North Shields on rear.
Bottle 4: this bottle is similar to the ones my father (born in New York village in 1943) remembers seeing when he was a boy. Could well have been in use in the 1940s.
Other side of Bottle 4.
all images are copyright Dr Jim Rickard 2006
We bought a house on Linskill terrace 8 years ago and when renovating we found one of these glass bottles in the garden,fully intact,I am plesed to have discovered its origin? Thanks so much!
I am married to Anne(nee Wilkinson)a descendant of William Arthur Wilkinson. We have collected his and J. Wilkinson’s bottles both in England and Australia.