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PERSONAL COMPUTERS (J.C.SAMUEL) wrote:

Sorry if I have the wrong forum to post this question to UK farmers, or
sheep farmers, but we don't have access here in Belgium (Brussels can't
do
everything, as you might well know) to the specialized forum in British
farming, at least I don't know any.

I have found a strange objet, like a flat bottle in transparent glass,
with
two necks, one on each side

It's about 20 cm wide and 7 cm high

It bears an inscription on the top, inscribed in the glass

THE AGRIPPA BAND

and, just under this : TEAT
WILL NOT
SLIP OFF

It's gratuated in OUNCES on one side (between 1 to 7)
and in TABLE SPOONS on the other side (between 1 to 15)

For this reason, I suppose it was used in UK
It's obviously old, certainly before WW2, maybe even before 1900

I supposed it could be in relation with milk farming, maybe ewe, not
cows
(it's too little for cows)

Does anybody know for what purpose it was made, or any other forum where
I
could post this request ?

j.c. samuel
Brussels

PS: please excuse my broken English

Sounds like it might be for feeding orphaned or abandoned lambs. Two
necks would be handy for feeding twins!

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I am old enough to have often used both types of the human baby and lamb
feeding bottles as described.
The farm lamb-feeding bottle was usually slightly larger than those used for
human babies.
They all had a soft rubber teat at each end but those were differently
shaped. The business end teat was longer and had a little hole in the end
to aid egress of the milk when the teat was sucked. The other end had a
smaller teat with no hole, so the idea that the bottles were for feeding
twins is amusing but incorrect. (:^) The smaller teat was an air pressure
equaliser and gradually shrank inwards when the baby sucked with gusto
thereby causing rarefaction of the air pressure inside, but it flopped
back again to its normal shape, refilled with air when the baby took its
little fat chops off the front teat in order to get its breath back.
They were quite common despite the fact that women in those days almost
always fed their offspring via the two Paps which in my day and my County,
(West Cumberland, now Cumbria), referred to those two big mid-upper turrets
on the female chest.
So, - since the bottle under discussion was found on farmland then my money
is on it's a feeding milk-bottle for lambs.
Doug.
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