Sold for A$80
1. Plummer Murphy & Co / Trade / (Castle or Turret) / Mark / Sth Melbourne / Regd 1894 // Made by Caledonian / Glass Bottle Works / Port Melbourne. Smooth base. 2. Plummer Murphy & Co / Trade / (Castle or Turret) / Mark / Sth Melbourne. No base mark. (Victoria) (late Ern Taylor Collection).. Aerated Water. Codd. Dobson or Four way type. Applied top. Aqua. 6 oz. 195 & 199 mm. 1900s
N/A. (N/A). 1. Fair. Stained all over. 9 x 4 mm chip to the back left lip. Looks like an approximately 15 x 10 mm bruise under some rust stain on the back shoulder. Under this mark is an indent which I don't know what it is, burst bubble? Manufacturing mark? Just a weird sort of chip? Generally scratched and worn. Very crude marble bottle. 2. Good. Very stained and dull. Some pitting around the lip and generally. Scratches and scuffs. Very crude embossing in a slug plate, clearly made at one of the smaller glassworks around Melbourne. This one without the "Regd 1894" embossing at the bottom of the circle. (late Ern Taylor Collection).. Estimate: $60-80
