silver love token

[DEADLOCK]

Was out with nick bates sat and found this silver love token and it measures up to a william lll sixpunce.

[shunggav]

well done mate

[WeCan-Octavian]

Better than Buttons!!! 

[DEADLOCK]

Bloody buttons lol

[Roman (Ray)]

welldone mr deadlock.nice find mucker.

[WeCan-Octavian]

Cheers Al for yesterday

Heres my finds my most interesting was my surface find of what i presume to be an old milk bottle twas sticking out the side of  a ditch!!

The flask says j g hawley, bristol think it dates back to the 1800's

James George Hawley

He was born in Burslem, Staffordshire, in 1826, to Joseph and Ellen, and was the seventh of their 11 children.  Joseph was a potter by trade.  He first appears in Bristol, at 2 (or more likely 4) Water Lane in 1851-5, followed by Stapleton Road 1857-8, then various other addresses.  He seems to have been a commercial traveller (salesman) with possible connections to the Bristol Pottery and the Cornwallis Pottery.  He is recorded as a foreman at the Bristol pottery in 1851. He may have a partnership with John Ellis in 1856-58.  In 1875 he is described as a redware manufacturer at Temple Backs (he had taken over William Hutchings pottery by 1873).  In 1883 the pottery is listed as the Temple Stoneware Pottery, with a claim that it was founded in 1802.  This business comtinued until 1901.  There was a separate business listed in 1883, Hawley & Son, tobacco pipe manufacturers, also in Temple Back.  An 1887 plan shows that the Temple Backs pipe works abuted, on the west side,  onto the coal yard owned by Pountneys.  Therefore this was the premises previously occupied by Richard Frank Ring the pipemaker.  Some of Hawley's wares are known to have been marked.  Hawley appears to have died in 1888 at Bedminster.  The 1891 census lists his widow, Maria Catherine Hawley, at 18 Somerset Crescent, Bedminster.  Living with her was a son James Alfred Hawley.  Maria died in 1896, and the son in 1901.  The death of the son presumably ended the business.

[Zeus (Joel)]

I love that bottle....Well spotted

[Chef Geoff]

Nice going both and a great bit of research there Nick, though I have to say it probably contained Jack Daniels, just a shot in the dark
As for that pot thing lol it looks as if it should have held the ashes of the said Mr Hawley.