Bottles

Above are two bottles. They were made of plastic in the 21st century. The green portion is coolant; the dark grey is gearbox oil; and the white is air. The gearbox oil and the coolant came from the engine bilge after an oil cooler pipe fractured on our March 2009 cruise.


Here are two more bottles. They were made of brick in the 18th or 19th century. This pair is by the Trent and Mersey Canal in Stoke-on-Trent. In 2001 there were only 47 of them left in north Staffordshire, from more than 4,000 originally. Here's a bit of pottery magic history.