Sold for A$755
Boston / Hop Bitters (Within a Flag). Around shoulder: Hop / Bitters // - // Hop / Bitters // - //. No base mark. (Australia) Spirits Bitters Semi Cabin. Indented panels. Applied top. Aqua. 26 oz. 248 mm. 1880s
Good. Stained. Tiny flake to outer right lip. 5 x 6 mm bruise to lower rear lip. Left side has an inclusion with an associated discoloured fractured bruise over about 12 x 12 mm. Scraped mark to corner on right front, there is a pitted, discoloured deep impact flake over 5 x 4 mm. Shallow pitted mark to the corner at left front. Another to one of the rear corners. Base edge has a little impact flake. Some fisheyes and impact marks. Some scuffs and scratches. A few impact nicks. A few little fisheyes. Rare in this colour! Note this is a different mould to the amber varieties with Hop Bitters on one panel on the neck, you can see the side neck panels have had the mould change and the rear panel has had a mould change as well. Quite fascinating. Grade: 6.6 Estimate: $1000 - 1500
