ANTIQUE GLASS BOTTLE DECANTER OF GLADSTONE

Hi All

Bought this interesting decanter / bottle last week it measures 13 inches high with the stopper. It depicts Gladstone and so probably dates to around 1880. I would appreciate any thoughts members may have as to origin and maker.


Many thanks

Ray

 

Welcome RAY!
Others will be along to help you.

 

Nice I would think probably a commemorative. What does the bottom look like.

 

Hi

I agree probably to commemorate a term as prime minister or possibly on his death. I have included an image of the base pontil.
Regards

Ray

 

If it's Gladstone, it's English. The stopper does not look original to the bottle, though.

 

There is a website where you can ask if no one here can help.

http://www.bottlebooks.com/questions/january 2002/january_2002_questions_ask_digge.htm

 

British, not English, strictly. I suspect it held something.

 

Some day one of you cousins over the pond will have to explain the difference between English & British. I think someone did a long while back.

 

Ah now. The UN state is the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. There are four consituent countries or nations: England, Wales and Scotland, plus Ulster/Northern Ireland, which is often referred to as a province. Wales and Scotland have their own parliaments, although the Welsh one is called an Assembley, and Ulster - Northern Ireland - has it's Executive. The state parliament is in London and has powers over the whole kingdom, but a lot of law is devolved these days.

I am a citizen of Great Britain, but I'd not call myself English, particularly. Very little of my ancestry is.

 

Gladstone being a parliamentarian, maybe it originally held natural gas.

 

I'm confused

Last week I had to send a package to London (I'm in the US). I went to the USPS website and got an estimate on the package pulling down to UK. When I went to buy the postage online there was no UK, they had Great Britain. What is with that? How can they have one name in a pull down menu when getting a price and a different name when buying the postage! I emails and asked but, of course, I got a canned response with pretty much no useful information.

Sorry, just wanted to vent.

 

So, English is more of a language designation than a person.

 

Spot on, Bev.

USPS are idiots, but you knew that.