Possibly depressed by the pandemic lockdown , a moth fluttered about this blog's abode trying to escape, without success. On one flight , it made for old medicine bottles on the ledge above the kitchen sink. It landed on one (above) bearing the place names Stratford and London . There are apparent trade names - C. W. Schmidt Ltd. and F. A. Claeser.
The well worn bottle next to it, circa 1880s, is from Henry W.W. Guest , an assayer and analytical chemist, of Moonta , 165 kilometres from Adelaide, which boomed after a shepherd found traces of copper on a wombat burrow in 1861.
Moonta became one of the richest copper mines in Australia and attracted many skilled Cornish miners . Every two years the world's biggest Cornish festival-Kernewell Lowender- is held in Moonta ,
