Product Category: Brewed Drinks

Print: Bollington Hop Beer Coy / From Jamaica Ginger Roots / (GB Monogram) / Brewed Ginger Beer / G. Blyth Geelong. Impressed stamp: The Bendigo Pottery / Epsom / Bendigo. Original Stopper: Bollington Co / Airship / Geelong.
Variety: Internal Thread. Champagne shape. Tan Top. Black Print. 10 oz.
Era: 1900s
Height: 210-216 mm
Rarity: Hard to Get. Worth hanging out for a top example but not that easy to get. Note it has the same print as bollington002 but this one is Internal Thread versus that ones Lightning Stopper finish. 

Print: Bollington Hop Beer & A.W.Ltd / From Jamaica Ginger Root / BG Monogram / Brewed Ginger Beer / Geelong. Potters stamp = Price / 12 / Bristol (potters stamp sometimes missing). Original stopper stamped Bollington / Geelong and on bottom of stopper Bratby & Hinchcliffe Ltd / Patent / 39.
Variety: Lightning Stopper. Champagne shape. Tan top, black Print. 10 oz.
Era: 1900s
Height: 213 – 215 mm without stopper
Rarity: Scarce. Nice English made variety. Often has a bubbly tan glaze. 

Print: Bollington Hop Beer / From Jamaica Ginger Roots / (BG) / Brewed Ginger Beer. / G. Blyth, Geelong. Potters Stamp: P. W. Taylor & Co Ltd / 65 / Hop / Exchange / London. Stopper: Bollington / Geelong.
Variety: Lightning Stopper. Two tone, tan top. Off white body. Black print. 13 oz.
Era: 1900s
Height: 218 – 221 mm
Rarity: Scarce. Really attractive variety. P. W. Taylor and Co were merchants and this bottle appears to have been sourced from one of the Scottish potteries that made ginger beers at the time.

Print: Bollington Hop Beer Coy / From Jamaica Ginger Roots / (GB Monogram) / Brewed Ginger Beer / G. Blyth Geelong. Impressed stamp: The Bendigo Pottery / Epsom / Bendigo. Original stopper with red print: Bollington / Geelong.
Variety: Lightning Stopper. Stoneware Ginger Beer. Champagne shape. Tan Top. Black Print. 10 oz.
Era: 1900s
Height: 210 – 214 mm without stopper
Rarity: Available. Not easy to get but enough around that you can be choosy. Much rarer is a variety (bollington002a) with a dark tan top which is essentially the same bottle but the glaze has fired differently.

Embossing: (H Bs / G all in a fancy shape) / Hodges / Bros / Geelong.
Variety: Champagne shape, sand blasted. Applied ring seal top. Dark Green. 26 oz.
Era: 1890s
Height: 298 mm
Rarity: Rare. For a large business very few of these have surfaced. Being sandblasted this “embossing” may well appear on different varieties of bottle.

Print: Ginger Beer / Trade (GAW Pty Ltd) Mark / Geelong. No potters mark.
Variety: Champagne shape. Two tone, tan top, off white body. Black print. 10 oz.
Era: 1919-1920s
Height: 207 mm
Rarity: Scarce. Harder to get of two types (other does not have Ginger Beer and Geelong in the print). 7200 bottles were ordered from Bendigo Pottery in October 1919.

Variations:
gaw002a – without the words “Ginger Beer” and “Geelong” in the print. Seems to be the easier to get of the two but still not common.