Glass; Bottle

MOL.2018.53.13

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10 fragments of almost complete glass bottle. near complete clear bottle with faint green tinge, embossed with: ‘SNOWDROP REGd. No. 47713 J Lyon & Co LIVERPOOL' John Lyon & Co. mineral water manufacturers are listed at 54, Brownlow Street East/Pembroke Place in 1900 (Gores Directory) and Lyon, John & Co. as a mineral water factory at Hamilton Lane/Price Street in Birkenhead. Lyon John & Co. are also listed as ‘mineral-water manufacturers’ at 21 to 25 Oldham Street West, at Renshaw Street in Liverpool. They also made cider [Lyon: John and Co. champagne cider for exportation awarded three gold medals for purity and general excellence, Oldham Street Liverpool.