Sold for A$50
1. W. Woodroofe / Trade (Spinning Top) Mark / Registered / Norwood / S. A. // This bottle is the property / of / W. Woodroofe / Please Replace / Stopper. Base: 1917 / A. (South Australia) 2. Ginger Beer / H. Taylor / (HT monogram) / Melbourne // This bottle / cannot be sold or used by / any other person & is not / complete without stopper. Base Mark: T. Stopper: H. Taylor. 3. H. Taylor / (HT monogram) / Melbourne // This bottle / cannot be sold or used by / any other person & is not / complete without stopper. Base Mark: T. Stopper: H. Taylor. (Victoria) 4+. 21 internal thread stoppers: 11 x Lignum Vitae, 9 x Wooden and 1 x Plastic.. Aerated Water. Internal Thread. Various Various. 1910s - 1950s
N/A. (N/A). 1. VG. Some dust and grime which should clean off. A little hazy, this has been oiled internally. Little nibbled surface flake to front base edge. Couple of little heel nicks. Couple of nicks to the body with some little fisheyes and impacts as well. Plenty of scratches and scuffs scattered around, nothing overly deep. Crate wear across the embossing. 2. Good. Hazy throughout. 20 x 6 mm section of chipping to upper and inner front lip. Oiled. Some etching. Some fisheyes, scuffs and scratches. 3. Very Good. Some fine inner dirt or possible light haze. Some scratches and scuffs. A decent, earlier example. 4+. Lignum vitae stoppers or ebonite or whatever you call the hard black ones are all pretty good, the rubber washers are in various states of decomposition. Of these, there is 2 x Frankston Springs, 1 x Cohn, 1 x R. Harrison, 1 x R. Harrison (embossed), 2 x Barrett, 1 x Barrett (embossed), 1 x Frankston F. S. Co., 2 x plain. There are some with wear and flakes, but nothing hugely wrong with these. The wooden ones, however, are mostly quite poor with splits, chips, cracks and just downright pieces missing. If I can't see writing, I will call them plain, but they may have had writing to start with. There are 3 x Marchant, 5 x plain and 1 x Bennett. Plastic one is a Marchant. Estimate: $30-60
