Page 38 - Saturday 7 & Sunday 8 October Auctions

632. ENGLISH HANDLED MALLET WINE BOTTLE. 8ins tall, black/ dark green glass. Delightful hand applied scrolled handle (in manufacture flaws, exquisitely rolled over bottom section), deep kick up, base pontil. The long tapering neck
very skilfully finished with a perfect pouring lip. Full body sheen with just minor general wear marks. This is an exceptional offering, although later in date but so very much rarer than a handled sealed onion bottle - perhaps the only recorded primarily undamaged example? A unique opportunity to acquire a particularly significant, very
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rare, early form? 9/10. NR. £2,000-3,000+
634. TRUFFLE BOTTLE TRIO. Tallest 9.8ins. A very fine group of wonderfully crude black/ dark brown wide mouthed heavy glass truffle bottles, each
variously base
pontilled. Three quite different looking lip finishes. Uneven tapering sides. No damages, full glass sheen. 9.5/10. (3) 9.5/10. NR. £120-50+
633. ENGLISH OCTAGONAL BODIED WINE BOTTLE. 10ins tall. Black/ dark brown-green glass, c. 1755-60. Eight crude/ uneven body panels with long, neck & superb tooled lip (inner roughness), crude, in manufacture applied, string rim, kick up, sharp base pontil. Full body sheen. Hand scribed David Walker Barker base label records ex Walt/ Larry Rigland, then ex Joe McCarthy Collection, obtained 1997. About as fine an example as one could ever find? 9.9/10. NR. £450-500+