Sold for A$200
Crowder & Co / Adelaide / And Port / This bottle is the / property of // Crowder & Co / and cannot be / bought sold or / exchanged nor / can it be filled / by any other / maker without / infringing the / Trade mark Act // Around the heel: Lumb & Co Makers // Castleford. No base mark. Aerated Water Corker Applied top, early squarish type top. Dump shape, square shouldered corker. Aqua. 13 oz. 197 mm. 1860s
Good. Has been heavily polished. Retains several pit marks and fisheyes. Four slightly dull points around the base where the stopple would have held the bottle in place whilst being tumbled. Lettering is still well embossed, but rounded. There are a couple of tiny lip marks, a small split and a fisheye. Internally there is a very small discoloured airbubble from manufacture. There is a small dint below the M of Lumb which may or may not be a small chip that has been ground out? This is a most unusual bottle, a variation of a similar bottle we had in Auction 2. This one has the warning written on it starting on the side of the front panel and going all around the rear, there is plenty of writing on this one. A nice piece for sure. Grade: 6.5 Estimate: $200 - 250
