This exceptional 13-piece online auction lot features an assortment of late 19th and early 20th-century glass bottles, highlights of which include rare, regional South African mineral water and ginger beer vessels from the historic diamond-rush town of Kimberley. The collection features distinctive Hamilton (torpedo-shaped) style bottles heavily embossed with pioneer-era merchants such as Browning’s & Co. and W. Shilling / Erath & Co. (dating from the 1880s to 1890s), alongside standard-shaped "Codd-neck" mineral water bottles from R. Greaves & Co. and J. Delaney (manufactured around 1902 by renowned British potteries and glassmakers like Bourne Denby for export to the colonies). Accompanying these historical pieces are various Victorian-era architectural inkwells, a rectangular apothecary or chemist bottle, and elegant spiral-molded glass soda or sauce bottles. Reflecting their authentic age and origin as excavated "digger" relics, the items are in fair to good antique condition; they exhibit typical signs of historical burial, including interior clouding, heavy surface patina, light mineral staining, and minor scuffs or flea bites, but they remain structurally sound and free of major modern fractures, preserving a beautiful, rustic display quality.
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