Two historic bottles from
Drysdale fetched record prices at an online auction in July.
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| The Les Bray St. Arnaud |
The
bottles were ‘discovered’ at an Historic Bottle Appraisal Day - part of the 2016
Festival of Glass in Drysdale, Victoria.
One
of the bottles was a Les Bray St. Arnaud ginger beer bottle, made between 1900
and 1918. Its estimated price was between $200 and $250, but it sold for a
record $650!
The
other bottle was a hand blown wine bottle from Oxford University’s Magdalene
College. It has a glass seal dated 1740 and its owner paid $50 for it years ago
at a London market. The bottle’s estimated price was between $400 and $500 but it
sold for $980 - a record for a bottle of this type.
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| The handblown wine bottle |
ABCR
Auctions ran the online auction, which attracted bidders from around the world.
