Topic: Fern engraved storage jars storage jars?

[brucebanner]

Would Victorians want to advertise they were ill, I don't think so.

[Paul S.]

they might not, but sickness and disease was something they lived with on a daily basis, and they all knew they were in the same boat  -  in 2015 we are so far removed from the way they had to live that it's hard to believe we're not talking about the medieval period.     Home remedies, leeches, cupping, herbal concoctions, consumption, rampant child mortality - they had the lot, and when your back is against the wall you'll try anything. 
But on the plus side look how great we were in adversity, and now look how the mighty have fallen.

I think we shall have to give up on these

[brucebanner]

Not so far Paul if antibiotics fail and they are at a dramatically alarming rate we all might have the use for Leeches again.

[brucebanner]

I could not find the Pteridomania dated pieces, they must be packed away but here is another dated 1931, a water jug.

[Paul S.]

well, you live and learn as they say......   nice jug - bet a pair would look nice

not beyond the bounds of possibility that - subsequent to manufacture - a later date might be added in celebration of some event - thus giving the appearance that the date we see was the date of manufacture  -  the opposite in fact of something deliberately fraudulent, where the intention is to deceive by providing a date earlier than when the piece was made.
I think the former variety happened with tumblers/drinking glasses etc. for Christenings and marriages and the like, and I notice that there is an inscription on this jug, which appears to be celebrating some event which presumably occurred in 1931 - or maybe the anniversary of some event was that year.

Could be wrong, but I don't feel entirely happy going with the idea that this jug was made in that year.           Chris, what is the full wording, please.


 

[brucebanner]

It's a 30's jug, no pontil little wear, looks like a celerbration of some sorts maybe a marriage, Mr and Mr's, here are the late 1870 80 90's dated one i keep to have a drop out of. My new display cabinet has William Morris wall paper stuck to the back of it and the cupboard is 1870's in date, the front room wall paper (not my choice) has a similar design, it's all been recycled over the years.

[Lustrousstone]

Your 1930s jug is pretty but more wedding bouquet than pteridomania I feel