Stone Ginger Beer Bottles

Ginger beer bottles are one of the most collectable of all the Victorian bottles. They come in several shapes and sizes, ranging from the plain salt glazed impressed type, slab sealed , standard , champagne , and skittle shapes.

Closures come in either cork, internal screw, or bale stopper types. Patent gingers are unusual, but the best known of the patented gingers are those with the galtee more closure - a hole through which a pin was inserted to prevent cork loss.

Ginger beer come with coloured tops and coloured transfer varieties, but these are uncommon and very desirable.

The bottles in this section are just a small collection of the thousands of different bottles available to the ginger bottle collector.

More excellent gingers are available in the COLLECTORS BOTTLES section. Have a look at the photos sent in by Simon Franklin. More gingers are available in the PRESTON BOTTLES section.

ADAMS & SONS of Halstead
ARLISS-ROBINSON & CO Sutton
BARRETT of Vauxhall
BOGNOR Mineral Water Co
BURGESS of Luton
CARMICHAEL of Edinburgh
CARR (William) of Blackburn (slab seal)
COVENTRY MINERAL WATER COMPANY
GOULDS of the Isle of Wight
GRIFFITHS of Cirencester
GURDS of Canada
HOWARTHS of Scout Newchurch
JEFF & CO (George) of Hull
JONES (Thomas) of Aberdare
KING AND BARNES of Horsham
LAWRENCE & SON of Eccles, Lowestoft, and Saxmunden
MILLS & SON of London (2 verities)
MILNE (John) of Stonehaven
O'DOHERTY of Londonderry
RAE (Gilbert) of Dumfermline
RAMSELL of Kings Lynn
ROBERTSON of Edinburgh
RUSSEL of Malton (slab seal)
SILLOTH MINERAL WATER COMPANY
ST ANNES HOTEL of St Annes on Sea
Stothert of Atherton
Tamplin and co of Liverpool