Descriptions

This photographic image by William Weaver Baker shows a leather bottle-boot in use. It consists of a leather cylinder sewn closed at the bottom and a leather strap and buckle fastening underneath. The bottle-boot was made from strong leather to hold the bottle still so it could be corked. If the bottle broke while being corked, the boot would save the drink. Baker also produced another slide showing the bottle-boot not in use (313/1977/648). The date Baker has ascribed to the bottle-boot is between the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

This object is not on display.

Inscription

front (under cover glass) handwritten handwritten 'The 'Bottling Boot' in use' on mount