Sold for A$20
W. G. Strover / Mortar & Pestle / Rathdowne St / North Carlton. Smooth base. Medicine Chemist Blake or Oblong shape. Applied lip with tooled finish. Blue-aqua. 5 oz. 142 mm. 1890s
Very Good. There is some fairly well stuck rust stain that needs a good soak to remove. A very shallow 2 x 2 mm flake to the front right lip and a much smaller one to another part of the upper lip. Some dullness and swirly lightly etched staining over most of the surface and fine milky stain on the inside mainly to the lower half of the bottle. Some scratches can be seen. Nice crisp embossing, hard to get pictorial Melbourne chemist bottle. Grade: 7.4 Estimate: $30 - 40
