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Two half pint milk bottles and two cardboard wads: 1. Modern Dairy / Ballarat (all in a fancy design) / Please wash & return / Empty Bottle // Contents / 10 ozs / This bottle is the property / of the Modern Dairy, Ballarat / and Cannot be legally / used by others. Base: 295. 2. The Property / of / V. M. P. Dairy / Pasteurised / Milk / Caulfield // Contents / Not less than / 1/2 Pint / Please Wash & Return. Base Mark: 42 / (Numbers) / M / A. G. M. 3. Pair of used milk bottle wads: 1. I C. McGuinness, Meakin St., East Geelong. 2. Metro. Dairy, 22 Jessie St., Preston. (Victoria) Household Dairy Wide mouth or wad top Milk. Seam through lip. Aqua & Clear. 1/2 Pint. Plus printed cardboard wads. Bottles 147 mm. Wads 42 mm diameter. 1920s-1940s
1. Very Good. Small nibbled flake to upper front left lip. Tiny surface flake to front base edge, there is a fisheye next to this. Some fine surface dullness throughout. Scratch to front right lower body. Some scattered fine scratches and the odd scuff mark. This is the first small Ballarat version we have sold, nice piece in this aqua colour. Aqua milks are not often seen. 2. Very Good. A little surface stain throughout. Tiny impact surface flake to front base edge. Some discoloured surface grime that should soak out. Some scuffs and scratches. Some very minor wear to some of the embossing. Interesting early version with the AGM base mark details that have the large dairy number over the top of them - the mould was obviously changed to add the dairy number, this would be from when the dairy numbers first came into use. 3. Both are used with a little bending or folding in one spot towards the edge where they would have been levered out of a milk bottle. Grade: N/A Estimate: $30 - 50
