The new British “Penny Post” made the sending of letters affordable to all for the very first time. It is only from around the 1840s that chemists were making and selling ink in both liquid and powder form.
It was purchased from the apothecary and had to be mixed with water for use. Up until the late 1700s, ink was only available in block or powder form. Spotting one of these enigmatic little bottles through my glass bottomed bucket is always a treat, and with a mind boggling array of bottle types produced way back when, today it has become the collecting dream for me. Once indispensable to the everyday lives of ordinary folk, it’s like the bottled social history of our recent ancestors, long since written. These often crudely made bottles are so characteristic of pre-machine age packaging, and held the letters, lists, and postcards of another age, in liquid form.
I love all old glass, but when searching the rivers, it is always in the hope of finding an antique ink.
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