Identify bottle / sign and offer a date?

[HeatherLynne]

As identification of the bottle will probably hold the key to information about this photo, have any bottle collectors' forums been consulted?  It's quite possible someone who has one of these bottles will recognise it even in its blurry form.   

Heather

[Nick29]

I think the beer bottle theory was discounted early on, because they didn't have paper around the neck.

[HeatherLynne]

Bottle collectors don't exclusively collect beer bottles do they?  Perhaps a packaging museum like Robert Opie might recognise it?

p.s.  lots of beer bottles do have neck labels nowadays and probably would have done at the time of the photo too.  Personally I think it looks more like a sauce bottle though.   

[Nick29]

I'm fairly sure that in earlier times, beer bottles had a thin strip label that went over the stopper and was fixed to the neck either side, to indicate if the bottle had been opened.  As a kid in the 1950's, we used to go and get granny her bottle of pale ale, and it was packaged as I described.  The label didn't go all the way around the neck.

[HeatherLynne]

I came across this site:  http://www.nscfandco.com/  and think they might be able to identify the product in the photo.  There's a contact name at the bottom of the page and if you have no objections I'd like to send him a link to this thread.  There's a collector's fair on Sunday 20th February and maybe they would display a copy of the photo and ask visitors if they know anything about the bottle?

If you'd rather contact him yourself Essenchill then that's great - let me know if you'd like me to drop him a line 
Heather

[Nick29]

A link on that site - the The British Bottle Forum looked promising too, but unfortunately you can't see any of the gallery images without joining the forum, and I didn't really want to do that.

[Essenchill]

I came across this site:  http://www.nscfandco.com/  and think they might be able to identify the product in the photo.  There's a contact name at the bottom of the page and if you have no objections I'd like to send him a link to this thread.  There's a collector's fair on Sunday 20th February and maybe they would display a copy of the photo and ask visitors if they know anything about the bottle?

If you'd rather contact him yourself Essenchill then that's great - let me know if you'd like me to drop him a line 
Heather

No issues with you doing that Heather, please do.
Thanks for the spot of the British Bottle Forum Nick, I will look into that one.

[HeatherLynne]

Hi Essenchill

I've emailed the contact at nscfandco.com and given a link to this thread.  Will let you know if I get a reply direct to my mailbox.

Fingers crossed! 
Heather

[Essenchill]

I've now signed up to the British Bottle Forum, and posted the picture and the bottle close ups to ask if anyone can help with identification.  I will continue to post any progress.

Heather - thanks for that, I look forward to any news we get from there and thanks again to Nick for the link to British Bottle Forum.