Mick staged a picture show of our past two bottle fayres plus the enamel signs and that fantastic advertising collection. These can all be seen on Youtube, but some of the members hadn't seen them before.

So on to the months finds. Steve D brought along the Johnnie Walker ashtray (pottery not plastic) which he bought at a local saleroom, together with a small size COURAGE of ALTON Codd plus the COURAGE, ALTON AND WINDSOR FLAGON. I have had a couple of identical ones so they must be quite common. His last find was local the pint milk from the village of Ropley - B KINGSLAND, FROM OUR OWN COWS, PHONE 3116, ROPLEY.

Mick has had some good finds from bulk lots offered to him. The best one was the early large size salt glaze flask impressed G GARRETT, WINE & SPIRIT MERCHANT STORES, END BORO. Believe it comes from somewhere in London. It stands 10 inches tall. The pontilled aqua bottle is a bit of a mystery. Is it old or is it one of those 'made for tourists' souvenir bottles. If anyone can enlighten me I would be glad to hear from them.

Micky had a few more bits from his digger driver. About 30 codds, two of which are shown here. WILLIAMS & SON, LEICESTER and a Shaws patent STROUD BREWERY CO. Included was this collection of ashtrays. These are up for sale if anyone is interested. The last of his bunch was the small hamilton J & G STEPHENS, WIGAN.

Steve T picked up this footwarmer from a digger driver working on a local building site. Loads of bottles coming up but fenced off with security etc. Very frustrating. The footwarmer is a long way from home - E HUXTABLE, IRINMONGERY STORES, NEWQUAY. Cornwall bottles are not easy to come by and so this must be a bit of a rarity. He found the three DURRANT, HERTFORD GB's in a junk shop. Amazingly they are all different. Bet the rarist one would turn out to be the badly transferred one! But his best item was this little cracker - PAGET'S PERFECTED MILK FOOD FOR INFANTS, CHILDREN AND INVALIDS. CLAY, PAGET & CO Ld. OFFICES 20 BENTINCK ST, LONDON W. Never seen anything like it before. It stands about 2.5 inches tall and must be ultra rare. Well done Steve. The BANKS DEPTFORD green cylinder was one of his car boot finds.

The amber codd with Queen Victoria trade mark turned up on the finds and the next stage will be for it to be cleaned and brought back to its former glory. Hope to get a picture of it then.

Bryan has been after this amber cylinder for years and now he has it in his collection. It reads F BLUNDEN, BASINGSTOKE. It was cellar found and still has the original wire that would have held the cork down. Pretty plain but to a local collector a rare find. Blunden was gone by the 1880's and taken over by Petman.

The competition for two pictorial creams only attracted 3 entrants. No real spectacular examples but Mick was first, Kim second and John third.