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Description: | A glass bottle seal with partial fragment of the bottle adhering to the reverse. The glass was green and has a golden yellow laminating surface caused by decay. The seal is approximately 50mm in diameter, and contains a rose with W W I above.Seals were used on glass bottles from about 1630 upto the early 20th century. Looking in 'Sealed Bottles; their History and evolution 1630 - 1930' (1977) by Roy Morgan, and 'Sealed Bottles' (1959), by Sheelagh Ruggles-Brise has not led to any parallels for this particular stamp. Without knowing the shape of the bottle, or bottle rim, it is difficult to assign a closer date to this seal.Hugh Wilmott of Sheffield University, comments: "...it looks like it comes from 'shaft & globe' bottle which would date it to around 1650-80, although it might be from a slightly later 'onion' type. Nevertheless, I would date it to the 17th rather than the 18th century. As for the device ... if it was just the Tudor rose on its own you might suggest that the bottle was produced for an inn of the same name. But the use of owners initials in triangular form, the upper W being the surname, the lower W the husband's forename and the I (almost certainly a Latin J) the wife's, suggest it was made for domestic use".
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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