Topic: shippams paste jar

[photoimp]

Hi, only started to do digs, but have had a lot of luck. Today I found what looks like a shippams past jar, but doesn't have the name shippams. Reg n0 653358, the 8 is hard to make out! Where i dig i have found 7 of the usual size shape. But this one blank.

[bat20]

I think we need some photos with a close up of the base 👍

[chopin-liszt]

I can smell the stuff right now... 
I do know what the jars look like. They have bellied out bottoms and vertical ridges. I think there is a flat bit for the paper label to stick to.

Welcome to the board, photoimp. 

[photoimp]

Thanks for the welcome, a lot of paste jars, there seems to be a dumping area near what was a woodman's cottage. each of the marked shippams paste jars are the same in every other respect. But each one does have a different number on the base.

[chopin-liszt]

Were there ever mass girl guide and boy scout camps using the area?
Or sunday school picnics?
They can't all be from a woodman. 
Unless he was collecting them to use as tealights...

Perhaps the numbers refer to the version of the paste in the container?

[NevB]

The Registered design number 653358 is shown here, so the jar will be sometime after that.

http://www.great-glass.co.uk/glass%20notes/regnos08.htm

[Lustrousstone]

The numbers on the bases of machine blown "things" is usually the machine number. Perhaps the woodman just liked meat paste: one jar doesn't go far

[photoimp]

Thanks all, what I can make out I think the dig area I'm at was a woodmans shed/shelter, all of the jars/bottles seem to date around the early 20th. So maybe a crew of woodman sheltered there and over the year the paste jars were thrown. Interesting point about numbers and content. The unmarked shippams paste jar doesn't have any number on the base as well as no shippams marks on it, but is the same size. The whole embankment of the cottage has produced a lot of finds. This area is strange since there have been very little broken crockery, just some glass, tiny German Vaseline jars and loads of Shippams paste jar. 9 in total. I'm returning on Monday,( I do gardening for the land owner). so will up date then! Photographs soon!!

[photoimp]

Me again, took a shot of the blank shippams past jar. No number where as all the others have numbers ranging from 6 to 49!

[bat20]

Hi PhotoImp , I found this online, there’s a few old bottle forums that might have more information as well .

https://marketlavingtonmuseum.wordpress.com/2012/02/29/shippams-paste-jar/