Sold for A$330
Hall & Sons / Norwood / Jas Turton / Maker. (South Australia). Ginger Beer. Cork Stoppered. Salt glaze with impressed writing. Dump shape. 168 mm. 1880s
Very Good. (7.7). Has been used to store phenyle at some stage, it has that distinctive smell to it. Potters blowout to left shoulder from making. 10 x 9 mm flake to front right base edge, with a glaze miss running in the same dimensions around this, it is obviously a making mark, nevertheless is there. Small flake to rear base edge. 7 x 3 mm body flake to lower rear has a thin streak from it, another thin streak above looks like a deep scratch, both of these are likely remnants from making. Some other making marks to be found. Impression is light in places. Maybe a bit of discolouration in places, hard to tell due to the crudity of the glaze in general, which has a lovely effect to the neck region. Jas Turton was a brickmaker in Brompton, South Australia in the 1880s, by the later 1890s into the 1900s his name turns up in Newspapers in Western Australia having moved over there. This is an interesting piece of South Australian pottery which is hard to get and seems to be pretty much as made.. Estimate: $50-75
