Sold for A$160
Rowlands / late / Rowlands / & Lewis / Ballarat / & / Melbourne // Evan Rowlands / (Shield) / Registered 6 January 1880 / (Miner & Farmer) / (Coat of Arms) / Trade Mark. Base Mark: Codd & Rylands / Sole / Makers / Codd's / Patent / Barnsley. (Victoria) . Aerated Water. Codd. Codd original or one way pour. Applied top. Aqua. 10 oz. 243 mm. 1880s
Good. (6.1). Polished. Looks like it has slipped in the polisher too with a heavy wear patch below Melbourne in the embossing and then deep pitting around the rest of the base edge. Lip has about half a dozen short grooves cut into it on one side. Body of the bottle is pretty good, smooth and some scratches and marks remain. Parts of the embossing are weak. Actually the fist we have had through with the Codd & Rylands base mark albeit the embossing on the base is also hard to read. Estimate: $100-200
