Page 7 - BBR magazine 140 - 30yrs issue

Above L to R: Laurence Cooper gently cradles a delicate Alloa sealed whisky. Kae Wicks stole the show with a sparkling, labelled, early Edward’s patent mineral. Julian Vickers and his mega rare matchstriker.
was overseeing the sale of
advertising artefacts on their stall
and eagerly pointed out a colour
rich showcard advertising
‘GREENSMITH’S/ DERBY/ DOG/BISCUITS’ with a comical pictorial of a dog circus, £170.
London legend Laurence Cooper presented a polished selection of Alloa and Nailsea glass, which has a unique pebble dash appearance. I invited Laurence to single out three choice pieces to report on and after some chin scratching he opted for a full size Alloa glass whisky bottle at £950, a half size example at £750 and the crème de la crème; a sealed dated Alloa glass whisky (G.R. 1819) ex Henry Chesterman collection, £4,000.
Kae Wicks was supervising the sale of items from the collection of the late Len Blackmore on behalf of his wife Chris. These included a Doulton bird
never forget the day his
spade winkled out a 6.5ins
tall cobalt blue ‘EAISLEY
DIGESTED/ SYRUP PREPARED BY/ G. HANDYSIDE’ - a mega bucks, very rare, bottle with an estimated price tag of £400+.
Nick Evans was on look out for seltzers and coloured glass, paying £23 for a most delightful aqua seltzer ‘MOORHOUSE/ HULME’ with lion
pictorial, then grasping an amber round based cylinder ‘WEBB’S/ LONDON’, £45, from Kae Wick’s stall.
John Yule paid a juicy £590 for a cobalt blue cylinder in the auction ‘WM ROW/ MANUFACTURING/
NEWCASTLE ON TYNE’ with reclining lion pictorial. John said, “this example is in unpolished condition,
which makes it highly desirable to me. Too many have been over polished to within one inch of their lives!”
Imprinted in my memory is the awe-inspiring constellation of hair restorers on Terry Gosling’s stall; their vivid colours reminding me of an artist’s palette.
Out of the many bottles that crossed my path during the weekend, numerous with huge price tags, I was
actually smitten by an £8 hair restorer found in Australia. This cute little bottle originally started out
life as clear glass, but after one hundred years of merciless Australian desert sun it had irradiated to a
shade of purple colour. Embossed ‘TRICOPHEROUS/ FOR THE SKIN/ AND HAIR. BARRY’S/ NEW YORK’. The history alone is worth £8. The grand total of 120 hair restorers
graced Terry’s stall (including 40 cobalt) I set myself a challenge to photograph them as a group with the outcome being rather pleasing and colourful! Just as I was about to
depart Terry insisted I admired an unusual triangular shaped example in olive glass ‘A.
H. SING’S/ BAY RUM’.
Found on the banks of the River Thames, one of
the earlier examples on his stall harking back
to the 1870’s and given the Far East
L to R: A trio of seltzers - amber Manchester ‘Woodman Matthews’, early greeny aqua
‘Moorhouse/ Hulme’, golden amber ‘R. Ellis & Son, Ruthin’.
feeder £55, a Rabbie Burns whisky jug, Charles Wilkinson & Co., Glasgow (lip repair) £250, a 7ins tall saltglaze barrel imp. ‘S. GREEN/ POLLER/ PRINCE ST/ LAMBETH’, £100, flat bottomed Hamilton, deep amber, ‘ORAM & CO.,/ TAUNTON’, £300, a 7.25ins tall, t.t., spirit flask given to Len for his birthday only last year by his wife Chris attracted much interest from stoneware buffs impressed ‘THOMAS GREEN/ Wine & Spirit Merchant/ Croyden’, price £180. Hogging the limelight was a truly magnificent Edward’s patent in remarkable condition - original paper label marked ‘J. W. VOYSEY Co’s/ CHAMPAGNE GINGER BEER/ STONEHOUSE/ DEVON’. Collectors were several lanes deep trying to get a glimpse of the ‘fresh to market’ material on Kae’s stall. Julian Vickers made a bee-line to the photo cube clutching a previously ‘never seen before’ matchstriker purchased off American eBay, 5ins tall, advertising ‘ENGLAND’S GLORY/
MATCHES/ MORELAND &
SONS/ HOME MADE/
MATCHES/ GLOUCESTER’.
A handsome promotional
piece to grace Julian’s fine
matchstrikers assemblage.
Just a few days prior to the
show Adrian Watson
reached the pinnacle of
digging perfection - he’ll
Right & below: Nick Evans with his bargain Webb’s cylinder £45.
Adrian
Watson
reached the pinnacle of digging perfection with this”great on the ey”, superb, Handyside’s Digestive Syrup’.
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