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JAR, COSMETICS - PONDS MILK GLASS

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c. 1910

Overview

White glass jar tapering outwards from base to shoulder. The neck tapers down from shoulder to the large opening.

The base has raised moulded text.

Historical information

Found at Mt Richon Vineyard in a rubbish pit. It would have been thrown into the pit when the contents were finished and the jar served no further use.

The Richon vineyard was originally planted by Joseph and Anton Marian in 1901 as Marians Vineyard with some locals referring to it as The Slavonian Vineyard. Joseph was Anton’s uncle and was originally from Austria.

A cellar was built at the site in 1906 but was almost completely burnt to the ground in 1914, it would be rebuilt and extended.

In 1919 the vineyard was sold to Gerald Valentine Patrick McCarthy who renamed it in 1920 to Richon after Rishon LeZion, a town in what is now Israel. McCarthy had spent time in the town during the First World War as an intelligence officer.

The American chemist Theron. T. Pond created an extract from witch hazel that he found helped heal minor cuts and other skin irritation. His company was formed in 1846 shortly before his death in 1849.

By 1914 the company renamed itself Pond's Extract Company and had focused on selling cosmetics. The company would be merged twice - the first in 1955 and the second time in 1987 by Unilever. The Pond name is still on products to this day.

Details

Registration number

cwa-org-33-AK2000.196

Material

Glass

Inscriptions and markings

[POND`S / 1S.1123 / 1]

Year

c. 1910

Statement of significance

NONE

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