Sold for A$170
The Adelaide Bottle Co-operative Company / Pickaxe Brand / (Pickaxe) / Trade Mark Regd / Ltd. No Base Mark. (South Australia). Beer. Ring Seal. Machine made, ring seal with offset seam through lip. Green. Sand Blasted. 26 oz. 297 mm. 1920s
Very Good. (7.2). 10 x 2 mm nibbled flake to inner front lip. Some inner dirt which should soak out. Open bubble to left near base edge. 4 x 5 mm flake to front base edge immediately next to an open bubble. Nibble mark to right of this. 4 x 3 mm nibbled impact near right base edge on the seam. 5 x 3 mm nibbled flake across right rear base edge. 5 x 3 mm flake to rear heel. Some other nibbled marks and so forth around the base edge. Some fisheyes and impact marks around the body. Scuffs and scratches scattered around. Plenty of crude making marks. We don't sell many ring seal sand blasted varieties, the last one was actually a Society example rather than a Company example. Estimate: $40-60
