Found on the Folly - Old SAB Beer Bottle - 1944

Sport has been watched at Jeppe High School for Boys over the years.  Proof of some of the beverages consumed have been preserved under the playing fields and Collard's Folly.

This old South African Breweries amber beer bottle was found under the rugby stands on White Field.  Circa 1944 (Talana). 

South African Breweries beer bottle 1944

Property of the South African Breweries Ltd

Talana 1944

This bottle would've had a vulcanite screw in stopper.

I found a SAB vulcanite stopper on a previous occasion and made art with it😊

The flipper on the bottom left is a 1940's SAB vulcanite screw in stopper

Vulcanite (I know you're thinking "Star Trek"😁, but no.......)

Vulcanization is a chemical process in which the rubber is heated with sulphur, accelerator and activator at 140–160°C. The process involves the formation of cross-links between long rubber molecules so as to achieve improved elasticity, resilience, tensile strength, viscosity, hardness and weather resistance.

Example of SAB Beer bottles and a vulcanite screw-in stopper, 1940's

Sources:

https://www.bidorbuy.co.za/item/465730814/Vintage_South_African_Breweries_SAB_Beer_Bottles_One_with_Original_Stopper_Circa_1940s.html

https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/materials-science/vulcanization#:~:text=Vulcanization%20is%20a%20chemical%20process,viscosity%2C%20hardness%20and%20weather%20resistance.

Found on the Folly - Something Fishy

 I found these beautiful paste jars on Collard's Folly.  

Not sure why my cat liked these, maybe because they contained fish paste almost a hundred year's ago.

Left & Right:  Crosse & Blackwell's San-Chova fish paste, circa 1948 and 1927 (and we thought they only made tangy mayo!)

Far Right:  BlackBerry "BlackScary" Meintjes

Small Peck's Anchovette jar, grenade shaped.  Cira 1930-1940. 

Apparently paste bottles and jars are a very common find when bottle digging or mud larking.  They are my favourites, so many different shapes and sizes.

Vintage Advertising

Crosse & Blakwell  SANCHOVA (Anchovy Paste), 1948

An original Peck's Anchovette Paste Jar, inlcuding lid, spoon and original label

Sources:https://www.ebay.ie/sch/Collectables-/1/i.html?_nkw=crosse+blackwell&_pgn=3

https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/original-pecks-anchovette-fish-paste-462916076

Found under the Field - Bottle, Jar and Lid

 Frank and Emmanuelle saved these little gems for me.  Found under the stands on White Field.

A beautiful cut glass perfume bottle (I think), Vicks Vaporub and a lovely teapot lid

The only item I was able to date is the Vaporub from the 1950's

"Pharmacist Lunsford Richardson made Vicks a household name.

He is from North Carolina (USA). Richardson’s salve, Vicks VapoRub, helped the world breathe easier during the devastating influenza pandemic of 1918.

Why didn’t Richardson — by all accounts a creative inventor and smart businessman — ever become as famous as those vapors packed into the familiar squat blue jar?

Because his name wouldn’t fit on the jar.

That’s one version of the story. According to company and family lore, Richardson initially dubbed his promising new product Richardson’s Croup and Pneumonia Cure Salve. Realizing that this name didn’t exactly roll off the tongue nor fit when printed on a small medicine jar, Richardson changed the name to honor his brother-in-law, Dr. Joshua Vick. Another account suggests the inventive druggist plucked the name from a seed catalog he’d been perusing that listed the Vick Seed Co.

The truth may never be known. What is known, though, is that Lunsford Richardson created a medicinal marvel for the ages, the likes of which may never be equaled."

https://www.ourstate.com/lunsford-richardson/

Found on the Folly - Very old Marmite Jar!

 I found this little 4oz jar on the Folly "MARMITE".  

Sides of the clear Marmite jar with "Marmite 4oz" embossed

                            Bottom of the Marmite jar, the number "47" appears here

"Marmite" originated from?  Translated from French it means an earthenware cooking container.  That is exactly what appears on the Marmite label.  The first Marmite ever produced in 1902 was sold in earthenware containers.

An original earthenware Marmite jar that was in use from between 1902 and 1920

Marmite is a concentrated yeast extract, a by-product from brewing beer.  That's why there was a shortage of Marmite in South Africa during lockdown (all those home-brewers, shame!). 

https://www.iol.co.za/lifestyle/food-drink/sa-is-experiencing-a-shortage-of-marmite-heres-why-c96456e6-3a0b-4e55-b147-3367c9af6926#:~:text=Marmite%20lovers%20who%20have%20not,a%20shortage%20in%20brewers'%20yeast.

I am very intrigued, this jar is clear not amber. I wanted to find out why and also how old the bottle was.

I did some research,

I tried to find other products that could've been bottled in clear jars.  Vegemite, Marmite Peanut Butter even some kind of honey spread.  

I could find no reference of a clear bottle.

I then stumbled upon a website, https://www.marmitemuseum.co.uk/

There I found a post where someone else was also enquiring about a clear jar.  They explained that when amber glass was in short supply, Marmite was bottled in clear jars.  

These clear jars could be valuable if they have labels on both sides and have a lid, which this jar unfortunately does not have.

I have sent them an email to enquire what the age of the bottle might be.  I will keep you updated!

Forged from the Folly - Do you know what a vulcanite stopper is? No, not an army protecting Mr Spock's home planet!

 

I also didn't know until I found these,

Vulcanite bottle stopper from Stag Beer Bottle

found on the road (Hockey Astro parking area)

                                            Stopper top left, from a SAB Beer Bottle, found 

on the bank behind the hockey supporter seating

Vulcanite Bottle Stoppers

The stoppers are made by heating India rubber to 115 degrees together with linseed and sulphur.

This creates a strong and durable material.  The process is called "vulcanization".

I created this piece of ShardArt for Dave when he left Jeppe.

                        

Please check out this link - my favourite Mudlark from the UK, NICOLA WHITE

http://www.tidelineart.com/tideline-art-blog/my-story-of-vintage-vulcanite-screw-bottle-stoppers

Found on the Folly - Folly-Larking 10 May 2021

 I explored a different part of Collard's Folly today.

This is the collection of the items I found.

An interesting collection!

1 Pinnacle # 4 gold golf ball, I googled it, one blog site listed it as the number 1 worst golf ball ever made (not worth picking up) ....  now they tell me! 

https://blog.nextgengolf.org/golf-help/the-worst-golf-balls-ever-made

2 unidentified porcelain shards

2 unidentified glass shards

1 antique crowbar (rusted), circa unknown.  Why is it called a crowbar?

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/62516/why-iron-lever-called-crowbar

1 Unidentified round clear jar - I'm still doing research on this one

1 Unidentified medicine bottle

1 ring pull tab for a vintage soda can circa 1963 -1980

I found this interesting website regarding the invention of the tin can, (Napoleon is linked to the invention of the tin can) very, very interesting!!!

https://www.aircontrolindustries.com/us/packaging-and-labelling-us/evolution-of-the-beverage-can/

1 Piece of clear depression glass with bubble pattern circa 1937

2 bottle necks unidentified

1 plastic Consol bottle of pure white pepper "Moir's", made in Cape Town John Moir Pty Ltd, can't find any information on this product.  

Will still try and find info on this one.  I didn't know that Consol also made plastic bottles or that Moir's distributed a range of spices.  I only know them keep a range of baking supplies and puddings. This is the first vintage plastic bottle that I have found on the Folly.

Found on the Folly - 9 May 2021 - Vaseline Jar circa 1950's

 

Found on the Folly - Old bottles - Bathroom and medicine brands

I've found many old bottles, I had no idea that most of the brands we know today are so old.  Everything was so much smaller long ago!

                                  Unfortunately none of these bottles had any embossed names

                                  so I couldn't identify them. I think they are all for medicine or pills

                                  except for the round one that might be a perfume bottle

 

               

Here we have from left to right, Listerine, Dettol,Vicks (blue jar), 

Co-Re-Ga denture adhesive powder (still with the label showing, amazing!)                                          Lennons, Vaseline x 2 and Cutex (the bottle still contains pink nail polish).

Listerine was created in 1879

The vaseline bottle (top one, above the cutex, is from 1936, it has a stamp on the bottom)

https://www.listerine-me.com/about