Bottle, Beer
Description
A green glass bottle of Guinness Foreign Extra stout with a moulded decoration including a lion and a unicorn " E.R / 1953 " and "Bottled in Coronation Year" is also featured on labelling on the bottle. The bottle also has a paper Guinness label between a raised pictorial monogram.
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This
bottle
of
Guinness
stout
was
issued
to
celebrate
the
coronation
of
Queen
Elizabeth
II
in
1953.
Accession number
A81.759
Collection type
Public comments
I have unopened numbered bottle. In NZ.
- Lynda Headland posted 8 months ago.
I have one bottle unopened,would it have any value as it wouldn’t be any good trying to drink it now.I live in Sydney but also collected mine in New Zealand.
- Frano Allan posted 9 months ago.
I live in NZ and found one of these in a swamp on our farm back in the 1970s. It never had labels but good to see where it originated from.
- John Young posted one year ago.