Sold for A$68
Federal Tea Rooms / (FJK monogram). Base Mark: Made expressly for / John Dynon and Sons / Melbourne / Vitrified / Globe Pottery Co Ltd / Cobridge / England. Household Milk Jug Black print on white ceramic. 45 mm. 1930s
Very Good. One spout has a 3 x 3 mm flake. Glaze wear to other spout. A few other little flakes and glaze wear around the upper rim. At front on the upper rim is a 10 mm horseshoe hairline, just coming down at each end on the front by only a mm or so. 21 mm diagonal glaze scratch to right front side. Very attractive milk jug from the Federal Tea Rooms in Bairnsdale. Interestingly, F. J. Kyle ran the Federal Bakery in Bairnsdale, advertising between 1912 and 1918 with a motto of "Cleanliness, Civility and Attention". The first mention of Kyle's Tea Rooms was in 1916, then again in 1918 when the Y.M.C.A. ladies' committee met at Kyle's tea room's, in Main Street, which the owner, Cr. F. J. Kyle, had generously given for use for the day in aid of the Y.M.C:A. war fund. There are many references to Kyle's Federal Tea Rooms in the 1930s. Grade: 7.7 Estimate: $50 - 75
