Summary

Alternative Name(s): Baby's Bottle, Nursing Bottle

Plastic baby's bottle, used in Melbourne in the 1980s.

Physical Description

Cylindrical plastic bottle, transparent, with orange, perforat ed drinking spout and orange plastic cap.

Significance

According to Carlo and Dot Sellan, in The Illustrated Price Guide of Antique Bottles, the first glass nursing bottle was patented by Charles M. Windship of Roxbury, Massachusetts, in 1841.

More Information

  • Collecting Areas

    Home & Community, Childhood

  • Acquisition Information

    Donation from Ms Honor Godfrey, Mar 1991

  • Date Used

    Greater Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, circa 1980-1989
    Based on the date of acquisition (1991) and the dates of other material from this donor.

  • Inscriptions

    Printed on bottle: MAWS/Simpla. BOILED/&/STERILISED. On back, vertical line: 50, 100, 150, 200, 240. In numerals with 2 ml. marks between each figure. The words MILLILITRES (MLS) printed sideways and vertically.

  • Classification

    Domestic life, Childhood, Feeding

  • Category

    History & Technology

  • Discipline

    History

  • Type of item

    Object

  • Overall Dimensions

    5.5 cm (Length), 9.1 cm (Height)

  • References

    Interview with Honor Godfrey at Richmond, 26/2/91.

  • Keywords

    Bottles