One more cup of coffee

Another really gorgeous day - warm: warm enough to eat lunch al fresco and get out the flipflops. I've spent the whole time outside  and look a disgrace but am most satisfied! Paths cleared, grass mown, hydrangeas cut back. 

Do you recognise today's image?? I took your advice and rescued the castaway and its companion. They have scrubbed up very nicely and involved a lot of elbow grease, cottonbuds and an old toothbrush. A spot of googling and I can reveal that the lovely milky coloured glass bottle dates from around 1870 and was produced by Brown Brothers Chemists and Aerated Water Manufacturers  of Trongate, Glasgow. Apparently it is hand blown with a blob top ie one that was stuck on afterwards. The clear bottle was made by Newsom & Sons of Cork and once contained Essence of Coffee and Chicory. It was posh coffee as this Irish Times advertisment of 1877 testifies:
COFFEE IN PERFECTION. NEWSOM'S CAFE DE PARIS. This delicious Coffee possesses that peculiar richness of flavour for which the Coffee used in France is so much celebrated. By a scientific process of preparation, the essential properties of the berry are preserved Intact.and the consumer may ensure a CUP of COFFEE in PERFECTION
It was also recommended for nervous headaches and 30 cups of coffee could be had from this little bottle. Or you could go and partake of a cup at their very own Café de Paris in Patrick Street as advertised.
The smallest bottle here  (an ink bottle I think) was found in the garden.
Fascinating eh?

One more cup of coffee and a rather different version