Sold for A$75
Pair of Bilz Lightning Stopper Bottles both embossed: 1. Registered / Trade Mark / (Crown) / Bilz / (Monogram) / Bilz Depot // Bottle not complete / without stopper. Base Mark: M. Stopper is plain. (Victoria) Aerated Water Lightning Stopper 1. Applied top, tooled finish. Amber. 26 oz. 2. Applied top, tooled finish. Amber. 13 oz. 276 & 249 mm without stoppers. 1900s
1. Poor. Large chunk from the rear and right lip has been restored. No wire on the stopper, this is stuck in with blue tack. Stopper is heavily chipped with some flakes too. Collar below rear lip looks to have a filled chip as well. Lacquer from this repair comes down the neck and shoulder. Couple of spider leg star fractures to rear are small. Larger fracture over about 40 mm to mid rear. Then there is the crack to lower rear that goes down 50 mm and then across the base 60 mm, up over the edge and along the lower bottle around a further 80 mm before coming back across the base about 60 mm and meeting back up with itself. Inner grime throughout. Amazingly heavily embossed. An extremely rare bottle in this large size. (3.8). 2. Good. 12 mm flake to upper lip. Rear lip has a chip over 15 mm that is hidden by the wire at back of the swing stopper. Deep open bubble to left base heel. Inner grime that may wash out? Tiny nick to upper rear body. Some nibbles to the embossing. Some outer grime that will clean off. A few scratches and some little scuff marks to be found. A lovely looking bottle. (6.0). On August 16, 1905, Martina Schreiber of Kew in Melbourne’s eastern suburbs, was successful in registering a trademarked device of a cross for the nonalcoholic beverage Bilz. It was registered as No.9254 on behalf of Schreiber and Co., the proprietors of which were Martina Schreiber and George Schreiber who was presumably her husband. Grade: N/A Estimate: $70 - 100
