The eagle eyed among you may have noticed in the piece I wrote this morning about the green plate, that, in among the glass in the cupboard, was a humble Irish milk bottle.

You are right that it is a milk bottle from Waterford , c 1989, but it has an interesting feature.

At this time Waterford had its extremely famous crystal factory which employed several thousand people.
Young apprentice cutters, eager to improve their skills, used to practice their cutting on the thick bases of milk bottles.
In fact I have been told that Snocream Dairies actually made an official complaint to the crystal factory because their bottles were being so defaced.

Every so often one would arrive at home full of milk.
Thinking that they might be antiques of the future I held on to some of them.

In the early nineties Snowcream started to deliver their milk in cartons.