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Glass Identification - Post here for all ID requests => Glass => Topic started by: Trebor on June 13, 2011, 04:36:14 PM
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Hi all
I went to Greenholme show this weekend (It`s in Cumbria) and bought this 1920- amber glass syphon . It`s very heavy at almost 4 lb
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Cor that's some weight Robert, but a lovely colour... incidently it your ever up my way come and have coffee .. email me for phone no. cheers steph :hi:
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It's a very classy beast. :thup:
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Hi Robert. :hi:
My Great Uncle worked for Schweppes in the 50's and 60's.....I had one like that in clear glass, engraved as well.............I sold it on eBay.......it cost more to post than the price it fetched, as the buyer was in Oz......he was very pleased with it though.
We used to have wire coated ones as a child in E Africa (for the Gin & Tonics I suppose), but they weren't coloured.....I have never seen a coloured one.
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You sometimes see blue ones and green/yellow uranium ones. As a child, I can remember taking the empties down to the pub's off sales window and swapping it for a full one along with some cash. One of the aforementioned empties has moved from my mother's house to my loft.
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Hi all
Well I'm glad that it seems to have brought you some memories of when you`s were younger I'm to Young to remember taking empties back . but i would love to see a green/yellow uranium one .To be honest i can remember taking lemonade bottles back. and on a Saturday you could go to the pic`s for 3 pence and they gave you a Orange.
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Robert...........if you are 'young' enough to have gone to the pictures for 3d, then you must remember taking bottles back to be re-charged with gas???
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Aaah, but he said pence, not pennies, p not d.
Big difference, metric or LSD. ;D
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Well I go back prior to 1971, a long time in fact. But oooh I'm now remembering the smell of the taproom that hit when I went into the Off Sales cubbyhole to buy arrowroot biscuits with money from take back bottles! :24: :24: :24: OMG I'm doing a 'Dad' in my day thingy. :wsh: back to the essay. cheers steph.,
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not surprised, of course, to see that the Scots are on lysergic acid :24: I've been looking for a uranium syphon for several years, and have seen thousands of every other kind, but the glowing sort still elude me, so can only assume that they are now very rare. Sometimes, at antique flea markets or whatever, the ordinary kind are quite common. Truthfully, I can't now remember what the entrance cost was for childrens Saturday morning pictures (I suspect 3d probably) - although I do remember I could get into Garons cinema in Southend-on-Sea for 9d (for adult films) - is that 4.5 new pence? I do remember taking the empties back to the off-licence and getting some pennies for sweets - and I guess that must have been the beginnings of recycling.
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My Dad used to get into the cinema for old jam jars.
(which he had to pinch from his mum's hoard - jam and marmalade were all home-made)
I think in older times (when LSD had a sterling meaning :P , Paul), not just during rationing but long before, recycling was the norm rather than something "new", Paul.
Clothes, home-made in the first place, got mended, darned, patched, repaired and handed down; glass jugs and bits of pottery got stapled together; sheets were given the "sides-to-middling" treatment to make them last longer; table scraps were fed the pigs and chickens; folk chased along the road with a bag and shovel after horses; milk was delivered daily in glass bottles and the empties collected for reuse......
I had to take lemonade bottles back to the sweetie shop.
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:24: :24: :24: I got arrowroot biscuits with the money earned on 'empties'. I'm just indulging in the pleasant past-time of 'remembering that smell'. I this case the beery tap-room smell that pervaded the Off-Sales cubby hole. cheers steph
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.................and Sue, the 'Rag & Bone' man would come round every week co collect all the old 'sides to middle' sheets that had then been made ito pillow cases, bandages and dusters...........then swapped for a goldfish in a jam jar that only lived a week until he came round again!!
We still get our milk in glass bottles, delivered 3 times a week and the used bottles are washed and left on the doorstep for collection.
Arrow root biscuits....ooooh Steph, now there's nostalgia!......whatever happened to Peek Freans Milk & Honey biscuits..the oval ones like a hoey Jammy Dodger????
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That reminds me of when my mum sent me to get a pummy stone off the rag and bone man but i got a balloon instad and it burst so i went back and gave him my woolly jumper for a new one you can imagine what mum did .Still she never sent me again
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milk was delivered daily in glass bottles and the empties collected for reuse......
My milk is still delivered in glass bottles, (though only three times a week) and they take the empties back to reuse!!! :-\