Soda syphon
Category
Historic Services / Food & drink preparation
Date
Unknown
Materials
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Gunby Hall Estate, Lincolnshire
NT 638759
Summary
The ‘SPARKLET’ soda syphon bottle and box, with instructions and spare washers. Six parts which include: [1] A heavy gauge glass bottle with spreading foot, a canework cover and white metal threaded screw at the neck. [2] A white metal globe with a threaded screw at the top and a thin metal pipe protruding from the other end, rubber washers to either end and a pin protected in the top one; part of the sparklet device which screws into the top of the bottle. [3] A white metal domed cap with threaded interior and opposed lugs, to terminate the sparklet device. [4] A tall square-section box for containing the sparklet bottle, covered in blue-grey paper and printed all over in deep blue text and a picture of the sparklet bottle. Top flap missing [5] Instruction manual for the Sparklet; a leaflet folding out into a single sheet printed in black and red on all faces [6] An envelope, printed on one face in black for the containing of spare parts for the “Sparklet”
Provenance
1990, purchased from J Montgomery-Massingberd.