Sold for A$260
H. A. Rose & Co. / George Street / (Skull and Crossbones) / Sydney / Dispensing Chemists / Poison. Base Mark: W. T. Co. / 2 / U. S. A. (New South Wales) Poison Cobalt Applied top, tooled finish. Cobalt. 6 oz. 144 mm. 1900s
Good. Looks Mint. Has been oiled internally, recently the owner looks to have attempted to wash this out with water, leaving some beads of water inside. Some minor spots of grime such as around the lower embossing, this comes off with the fingernail. Tiniest of impacts to right base edge is barely even visible. Similar almost invisible sized surface bubble to rear base edge. At this point I still had this graded as mint, but then I noticed this last minor point: Left base edge has a tiny sliver flake, from which is the finest fracture imaginable, I very nearly missed it. First I thought it was a scratch coming up diagonally from the sliver, but then I noticed a similar inner surface scratch and realised that these were both sides of a very fine fracture. Then turning the bottle upside down, from the same sliver the fracture runs under the base and curves around towards the front over about 30 mm where it curves up into the lower front panel and runs along the front near the base edge horizontally over about 20 mm through the lower part of the word poison. Some grimy fingerprints and a few fine scratches. A great looking example, looks mint. Grade: 6.3 Estimate: $200 - 300
