Object Record

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Object ID #

2012.078.029

Object Name

Cap, Bottle

Title

New Orange Quench Bottle Cap

Lexicon category

4: T&E For Materials

Credit line

On behalf of the Taylor Family

Date

20th-century

Year Range from

1941

Year Range to

1950

Artist

CCS

Made

William Taylor & Son Limited

Place of Origin

Owen Sound, Grey County

Description

Cork-lined metal bottle cap. It is printed with an orange and white pattern and the lettering: "NEW / Orange- / Quench / T.M. REG / WM. TAYLOR & SON / LTD. / OWEN SOUND". The edge reads: "BENZOATE OF SODA USED COLOURED CCS"

Makers mark

The edge has "BENZOATE OF SODA USED COLOURED CCS"

Provenance

Manufactured by CCS for William Taylor and Son, Limited. Dates to the 20th-century.

Last belonged to William Humphrey Taylor. He was a son of William Taylor, who had started a bottling company in Owen Sound, Grey County in 1884. In 1886, he partnered with John C. Pringle to form the Taylor and Pringle company. According to page 117 of Melba Croft's "Growth of a County Town", in 1909, Taylor and Pringle were Owen Sound's sole Coca-Cola retailers.

John Pringle died in 1911, and William Taylor created William Taylor and Son, Limited on April 19, 1917. After his death and that of his son, Christopher, in January and May of 1925, his business was managed by Clara Taylor and her son, Humphrey Taylor (born 1909). Upon her death in 1956, Humphrey Taylor became Manager. The two-storey brick factory was located at 969, 3rd Avenue East. The firm was sold in 1971.

Last owned by Nora Helen Taylor.

Collection

Bottles & Equipment, 20th-c Collection

Material

Metal/Cork/Ink

Dimensions

H-0.5 Dia-2.5 cm

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