Dr Winns Black & Blue (Fabric) Reviver Brown Salt Glazed order Stoneware Impressed Bottle Advertising Token

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Victorian brown glazed stoneware bottle and associated advertising token,
the bottle impressed;
DR WINNS
BLACK & BLUE REVIVER
PREPARED BY
T.E. PRYCE OILMAN KENT ROAD
LONDON
This fine old bottle contained a blacking solution to revive mourning and other black clothes and fabrics.
In perfect condition with no damage or repair, the lettering impression is light in places, a thick run of dark treacle glaze to the right.
Height 4,5/8" or 119mm.
the advertising token,
1820-40 issued by Thomas Pryce, oil and colourman, of London. (Colourman: one who prepares and sells paint.)
inscription;
T PRYCE OIL & COLOURMAN 1 YORK BUILDINGS & 12 OPPOSITE SURREY PLACE KENT ROAD (J H) LONDON
SOLE MANUFACTURER OF DR WINN'S BLACK AND BLUE REVIVER FOR RESTORING ALL KINDS OF FADED MOURNING
good colour and in good minted condition, manufacturing split to one side.
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The exact purpose odf this reviver comes to us courtesy of Charles Dickens in his 'Sketches by Boz' entitled, Shabby – Genteel People.
'His clothes were a fine, deep, glossy black; and yet they looked like the same suit; nay, there were the very darns with which old acquaintance had made us familiar. The hat, too–nobody could mistake the shape of that hat, with its high crown gradually increasing in circumference towards the top. Long service had imparted to it a reddish-brown tint; but, now, it was as black as the coat. The truth flashed suddenly upon us–they had been ‘revived.'
It is a deceitful liquid that black and blue reviver; we have watched its effects on many a shabby-genteel man. It betrays its victims into a temporary assumption of importance: possibly into the purchase of a new pair of gloves, or a cheap stock, or some other trifling article of dress. It elevates their spirits for a week, only to depress them, if possible, below their original level. It was so in this case; the transient dignity of the unhappy man decreased, in exact proportion as the ‘reviver' wore off '
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