Stone Ginger Beer Returnable Bottle

This bottle was used from 1905 until the late 1920’s when all manufacturers discontinued the use of stone bottles (because they could not be visually inspected), after the famous Donoghue v Stevenson legal case. This action against David Stevenson, who was a soft drinks manufacturer in Paisley, was known as ‘the snail in the ginger beer bottle’ case and became one of the most famous legal cases in the world. It was of fundamental importance to the whole concept of product liability in relation to goods sold by a manufacturer