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Five early salad oils: 1. Decagonal goldfields salad oil. No base mark. 2. Octagonal goldfields salad oil. No base mark. 3. Medium Size Whirley Salad Oil. Base Mark: 867. 4. Standard Size Whirley Salad Oil. Base Mark: 5 / 1189 / 5. 5. Embossed ribs down bottle interspersed with some concave ribs. No base mark. Goldfields Salad Oil Various 291 - 170 mm. 1850s-1890s
1. Very Good. Some light inner haze. Small surface bruise to rib near shoulder. Couple of little nicks to be found. Some scattered scuffs and scratches. Some inner base dirt. Nice early bottle, generally quite shiny too. 2. Good. 20 mm crack to lip. Heavy annealing marks to inner lip. 18 mm fine fracture which is a little curved to one of the corners mid body, shortly above a burst bubble. Flaked mark to base edge. Some scuffs and scratches. A little fine haze in places. 3. Excellent. Lip dip from making. Some fine inner neck annealing marks from making. Line of inner dirt that will wash out. Patch of outer discoloured stain near base which will soak off. Little nick to base edge, amongst some drips in the glass and over an airbubble, you can't see this easily at all. Little scuff above this to the lower body ring. Some very minor scuffs and the odd light scratch. Unusual in this 13 ounce size, a lot harder to get than the common standard size, in fact I would suggest harder to get than the 26 ounce as well. 4. Excellent. Some fine inner dirt or light haze. Couple of discoloured spots of stain internally in the neck. A few scuffs and scratches and one or two tiny fisheyes. 5. Excellent. These are not rare with the embossed ribs, I have never noticed whether the body ribs have one concave embossed rib, two rounded embossed ribs, one concave and so one. Shallow thin surface bubble to inner lip. Some inner dirt that will wash out. A few scuffs, some minor scratches and marks. Shiny bottle, one of the best examples you will see in this condition. Grade: N/A Estimate: $30 - 50
