Sold for A$90
1. E. Rowlands / Ballarat / Melbourne / Katoomba / and / Sydney. Base: R. 2. Rowlands / late / Rowlands / & Lewis / Ballarat / & / Melbourne // Evan Rowlands / (Shield) / Registered 6 January 1880 / (Miner & Farmer) / (Coat of Arms) / Trade Mark. Around Base: Made by Melbourne Glass Bottle Co. Base: R. 3. E. Rowlands / Ballarat / Melbourne / & Sydney. Base: AGM / Co. 4. E. Rowlands. Base: 2294. (Victoria & New South Wales). Aerated Water. Various. 1. Dobson or Four way type. Spun finished top. Aqua. 10 oz. 2. Hills or Three way triangle type. Applied top. Aqua. 10 oz. 3. Champagne. Applied blob top. Aqua. 6 oz. 4. Skittle. Crude seam through lip. Aqua. 10 oz. 242, 247, 188 & 218 mm. 1890s - 1920s
N/A. (N/A). 1. VG. Polished. Remains of a smoothed over 7 x 3 mm chip in the front lip, nibbles in front of this on the outer lip. Remains of some pitting around. Manufacturing lines diagonally up the front. 2. Good. Polished. Cleaned up to be presentable. On the pictorial side the word Evan and parts of the embossing inside the shield are completely gone. Lots of pitting still remains all over. 10 x 10 mm burst bubble low down on the writing side. Has clearly been very rough before the polish. 3. Good. Chip and bruise in the top of about 15 x 5 mm. A bit of stain inside. Scuffs and scratches. A handful of little surface fisheyes around the base edge. Note that the glass maker of this is an earlier AGM that operated in Sydney in the 1900s before the formation of the more well known AGM in 1915. 4. VG. Probably better. Dirty and grimy. Big manufacturing fold down the front over and through the embossing. Chips around the base edge, one of 5 x 4 mm and then a handful of 1 - 2 mm flakes. 2 x 2 mm impact mark to the right of the D. Huge bold embossing. Good looking bottle. Estimate: $50-100
