Sold for A$35
6 bottles: 1. Gainsborough Hat Dye. 2. Jean Marie Farina Cologne. 3. Walker & Hall Instantaneous Plate Cleaner. 4. Bishop's Mineral Water Varalettes. 5. Hire's Household Extract. 6. Crosby's Balsamic / Cough Elixir. No base mark. (United Kingdom) Miscellaneous Bottles 1. Applied top, spun finish. Aqua. 2 oz. 2. Free blown with pontil. Clear. 2 oz. 3. Applied top. Aqua. 4 oz. 4. Applied top. Blue. 2 oz. 5. Machine applied top. Aqua. 2 oz. 6. Applied, thin flare lip. Clear. 2 oz. 1. 128 mm. 2. 115 mm. 3. 150 mm. 4. 115 mm. 5. 110 mm. 6. 107 mm. 1850s-1920s
1. Near Mint. May have had a light oiling. Looks superb. Tiny nick to lip edge. This company was also involved with Greathead's Mixture. 2. Good. Polished. Looks like it was loose in polisher and so there are deep sections of wear down the corners. Sliver to base edge. Some scratches and minor marks. Nice pontil. 3. Very Good. Polished. The early Kilner made variety prior to them going internal thread. Stain still to inner neck and some dullness elsewhere. Little surface impact to lower right. Remains of scuffs and scratches. Oiled internally. 4. Very Good. Polished. Oiled internally. Some fine etching remaining. Some scuffs and scratches, there are a few pitted marks as well. Different to the usual Magnesia bottle from this company! 5. Very Good. Little flake to upper lip edge. Some minor inner stain. This may have been polished as a scratch or two looks rounded at the edges. Some scratches and scuff marks. 6. Good. Polished. May have been oiled internally, there is some dirt and stain remaining. Rear base corner has worn at the edges from slipping in tumbler during polishing. Edges up to shoulder of rear panel have heavy wear too, probably for similar reasons, towards the shoulder this is heavy deep wear again. Some scuffs and scratches scattered around. A popular product in Australia, adverts from the 1880s suggest, "CROSBY'S BALSAMIC COUGH ELIXIR is specially recommended by several eminent Physicians, and by Dr. Rooke, Scarborough, author of the Anti-Lancet. It has been used with the most signal success for ASTHMA, BRONCHITIS, CONSUMPTION, COUGHS, INFLUENZA, Consumptive NIGHT SWEATS, SPITTING OF BLOOD, SHORTNESS OF BREATH, and all Affections of the THROAT and CHEST. Sold in Bottles at 1s 1 1/2d., 1s. 9d., 4s. 6d. and 11s. each, by all Chemists and Patent Medicine Vendors. Wholesale by JAMES M. CROSBY, Chemist, Scarborough, England." Grade: N/A Estimate: $20 - 30
