Bracher

A tangled web of companies centres on the Bracher name in Plymouth over a period of a hundred years.

Firstly, we have the company of James Edwin Bracher operating between 1897 or earlier and 1914 from premises in George Place and later Southside Street.

Then we come across bottles marked with the name Bracher & Mason (bearing the Kops Regd trade mark). This may also be a forerunner of Mason’s Table Waters who operated until 1970s.

The final incarnation of the Bracher name is Bracher & Sturgess who operated from 1928 until the 1970s.

As would be expected, this has generated a fairly wide range of bottles which are commonly encountered. Amongst the rarest items from these companies are a stoneware ginger beer bottle marked “JE Bracher / Kops Ale For Cyclists” and the blue topped stoneware flagons with the Bracher & Sturgess logo printed on them.

Codd bottles used by J.E. Bracher

Coloured glass J.E. Bracher bottles

Variations of ginger beer used by J.E. Bracher

Dark glass bottle from Bracher & Mason

Later type embossing

Earlier type embossing

A stoneware flagon used by Bracher & Sturgess

Labelled Bracher & Sturgess Zipto bottle

A 1950s advert for Bracher & Sturgess

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