Sold for A$410
The Artesian Aerated Water Co / Trade / (Artesian) / Mark / Charleville Queensland // Patent / (Hand Holding Bottle) / Lamont / Trade Mark. Around base heel: John Lamont // Maker Glasgow. Base Mark: Etched B. (Queensland) Aerated Water Lamont Applied top. Aqua. 13 oz. 223 mm. 1880s
Good. An extremely rare bottle, these also come with a blue lip, obviously this is the rather bland fully aqua example, but a great piece nonetheless. Rear lip has flaked chips and nibbles around about 50% of the circumference. Stained throughout with some inner dirt and stain. Scattered very small fisheyes. Flake chip to front left base edge. Couple of other nibbled flakes and impact marks to base edge. Front base edge up the front a bit has a series of fractures that don't go all the way through, roughly a couple of millimetres into the glass. The longest of these is about 40 mm, but this is also the shallowest. A superb bottle, these rarely come up for sale, not likely another will come up for sale any time soon. This was dug many years ago in Charleville, the dump has been fully dug, so no more will ever surface from there. Grade: 6 Estimate: $250 - 300
