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Object ID # |
1962.070.001 |
Object Name |
Bottle, Seltzer |
Title |
Taylor & Pringle Soda Siphon Bottle |
Lexicon category |
4: T&E For Materials |
Year Range from |
1905 |
Year Range to |
1915 |
Made |
Unknown |
Place of Origin |
London, United Kingdom/Unknown |
Description |
One soda mixer bottle, c. 1910. Made for the Taylor & Pringle Ltd., of Owen Sound. This soda siphon bottle (sometimes called a seltzer bottle) was etched decoratively on its colourless glass. There is a vertically-oriented oval design with "TAYLOR & PRINGLE / OWEN SOUND" around a conjoined "T" & "P". The metal of the top is impress-stamped with wording: "Taylor & Pringle, Owen Sound, Ont". |
Provenance |
The top (white lead) siphon piece was manufactured in London, England between 1900 and 1915 by the British Syphon Manufacturing Co. for the Taylor & Pringle bottling firm of Owen Sound, Grey County. (Note that John Corbett Pringle died in 1911, so it likely was before this date). In the 1990 film, "The "Pop" Works of Owen Sound; The Story of the Soft Drinks Industry and the Life of Wm. Taylor (1862-1925) as Chronicled by Wm. Humphrey Tayor (1909-1990)" (Grey County Archives), Humphrey Taylor says that the company produced this seltzer bottle between 1905 and 1930, but the top white lead piece (made in France) was so difficult and expensive to produce that they discontinued it in 1930. The bottle would have been filled upside down (Humphrey Taylor), used and returned to the Taylor & Pringle company for refilling. Owned by Malcolm D. Kirk. Unknown provenance beyond this. |
Collection |
Food Service Tools & Equipment |
Material |
Glass/Lead |
Found |
Grey County, Ontario |
People |
Pringle, John Corbet Taylor, William |
Subjects |
Bottling industry Bottles Soda industry |
Search Terms |
Taylor & Pringle Owen Sound Industries and Products |
Function |
A refillable soda bottle that was custom-made for the Taylor & Pringle Co. Ltd. of Owen Sound, Ontario, which was a bottling company. |