Larkins Hotel

George Street

 

 

 

 

Left to right:

A. Imperial Quart flask. Clear glass, applied top. Extremely rare. Embossed on front: "IMPERIAL LARKINS HOTEL 655 GEORGE ST HAYMARKET". On back: "QUART". 

B. Imperial Pint flask. As above, but "PINT" on back near shoulder. Only one example known to date.

Somewhat difficult to photograph embossing.

 

 

 

Left:

Close-up of "PINT" as found on back near shoulder of Imperial Pint flask. Faint embossing.

 

Left:

Clearer close-up of the embossing on the Imperial Pint (as above).

Photo by J. Montgomery.

 

Larkin's Hotel

Believed to be owned by Patrick Larkin, but so far unable to find any record of him holding a licence there.