The GOLDFIELDS ERA saw many companies as well as single glassmakers or glass factories design these very elaborate bottles. It is uncertain whether all of the designs were able to be made, but the skill required to make these very fragile pieces was, and still is, quite an amazing feat. 

• Crosse and Blackwell 1845

• Joseph Wingrave 1845

• Charles Heaton 1845

• Phillipson and Co 1845

• Charles May 1845

• Aire and Calder 1846

• Anthony Thatcher 1846

• John Weekes Kincaid 1847

• Percival and Yates 1847

• Felix Summerly 1847

• Arther Young and Co 1847

• Alexis Soyer 1847

• John Cliff Quince 1847

• John Coombs and Sons 1848

• Westwood and Moore 1848

• George Whybrow 1849

• John Kilner 1850

• Joseph Sterry and Sons 1850

• Phillip Benjiman 1851

• Deeley and Sons 1852

• Stott Walker 1853

• John Cannington 1858

• Powell and Ricketts 1858

• Samuel Roodhouse 1878

As most of the records from the NATIONAL ARCHIVES records only date back to 1842 and the first record of a Registered Design of a bottle is Crosse & Blackwell 14th of April 1845.

 Some of the very early Victorian designs such as the pedestal-based salad oils are believed to have been made in the early 1840's. No records of these wonderful pieces exist. Is this a period before records were commenced or have these designs been lost, destroyed, or were they all just made and never recorded?

Maybe, in years to come, somebody may discover these, but for now we can only guess at the date of manufacture and also the manufacturer or the designer.