Coulson Macleod’s Vintage Find
Very excited over our new purchase and thought I’d share it with you. We were rummaging in a junk shop yesterday and came across this vintage bottle crate…
This bottle crate is from Arnold, Perrett & Co. Ltd, a brewery in Gloucestershire that was founded in 1820. Arnold, Perrett & Co. ceased brewing in 1924. The site is now used by Wickwar Brewery.
Not sure how old this crate is, but it doesn’t date to any earlier than 1887 (that’s when the company changed its name to the version on the crate).
The best thing about our new crate is that the supermarket plastic herb pots fit exactly into the bottle slots. I’m off to buy 11 more tubs of mint for a fantastic window planter.
Tags: Arnold Perrett, Coulson Macleod, typography, vintage, vintage finds, vintage typography, Wickwar Brewery
August 23rd, 2011 at 4:51 pm
Just HAD to send you a message & ask you to note that ~ twixt 1959 & 1962 ~ I was an Arnold Perrett & Co Ltd employee in Gloucester. They were the Wine & Spirit Division of the Whitbread owned Cheltenham & Hereford Brewery by then, and my bosses were a Mr. Ronald Gillman (ex W&S boss @ C&H) & Mr. John Hillyer (ex W&S boss @ Stroud Brewery) both of whom were charming gents of the ‘old school’, along with my immediate boss who was Mr. ‘Ted’ Edwin Bastin, a gentle 60+ year old when I was a callow youth/trainee & a veritable ‘MINE’ of Wine info. but without a qualification to his name. I was doing my ‘training’ which would lead to a future career in the W&S trade within Courage Group (Saccone & Speed & Charles Kinloch & Co.) but I shall ALWAYS think most fondly of AP&Co as ‘they’ were my mentors back in those halcyon days of youth [@ £7/10/0d. per week for 45+ hours, too, and glad to be SO employed!!
I DO hope this is not seen as gratuitous drivel by yourgoodselves.….your lovely old AP crate ‘touched’ me not inconsiderably!!!
Very Best Wishes to you.
RN (retired) near Helston in West Cornwall
August 23rd, 2011 at 6:42 pm
What an absolutely lovely comment. Thank you so much for taking the time to tell us about your time at Arnold Perrett. We love our crate and it makes the most attractive herb planter. Such a shame that you didn’t take a few crates with you from those days, but then we don’t value such items at the time.