Sold for A$45
Crowder / & / Letchford / Trade (Rampant Lion) Mark / Perth & / Fremantle // Melbourne / Glass Bottle Co / Makers. Base: C & L. (Western Australia) Aerated Water, Codd Reliance Patent variety. Applied top. Aqua. 10 oz. 235 mm 1890s
Good (6.9). Polished. Shallow 4 mm fracture just below upper front lip, looks like an annealing mark, though it is in an unusual location for one of those. Tiny nick to lower right lip. 5 x 3 mm chip to right rear mid body, there is a fracture along one edge of this. 7 x 4 mm deep pitted mark to lower right rear, a nick or two next to this as well. Embossing is very strong, the & is chipped, and MA near the base edge have impact flakes and nicks across them. Just a bit of wear here and there to the other letters. Some fisheyes and impact marks to be found. Some scratches and scuff marks. Estimate: $30-50
