Albert (Mim)
Tuckwell's collection
This extremely rare Magnet works maughams patent (round-ender) was used by Walker & Company of Edith Place, North Adelaide.
The company came into existence around late 1886, just in time to cash in on the 1887 Adelaide International Exhibition. Walker & Co had the contract to supply the caterer of this large event with aerated water products.
The business lasted just a year before the principle of the company, Mr. Francis Barker Died.
The bottle is rather inportant, as it was produced at the Brompton glassworks near Adelaide by glassmaker Cornelius Bishop.
There was but a small window of opportunity for Bishop made bottles, for he went bankrupt within the year 1887, and by December of that year was an imprisioned debtor in the Adelaide jail.