Sold for A$2,200
Day's / Pile Specific / and / Application // An / Infallible / Remedy / For Piles. Round pontil scar to base.. Medicine. Cure. Square. Rounded finished lip. Clear. 1 oz. 65 mm. 1850s. (AUSTRALIAN)
Near Mint. (9.3). Spectacular early little item. Some dirt in the base corners. Lovely and unusual little item. Estimate: $40-60
EDIT 11.11.23: This is an early Melbourne bottle! A newspaper advertisement from 1867 states:
"Piles! Piles!
Day's Pile Specific
and Application.
An Infallible remedy.
The above will be found a certain cure for this
distressing Complaint, it having never
been known to fail.
Prepared only by Charles Day,
Chemist and Druggist,
27 Lonsdale Street West
Melbourne"
