Hand-Painted Cottee's Bottle Crate

Hand-Painted Cottee's Bottle Crate

$195.00
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Hand-Painted Cottee's Bottle Crate
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Hand-Painted Cottee's Bottle Crate
$195.00

Specifications

Australia, mid 20th century

A timber cordial-bottle delivery crate, hand-painted for Cottee's

Solid plank ends and long faces, open-slat back and base, riveted metal corner straps

One long face hand-painted (brush with a sprayed shadow): Cottee's in red script on a yellow ground

Interior with ring-staining from the bottles it once carried

Decorative only; not food-safe or load-rated

Approx 37.5 cm wide, 27.5 cm deep, 15 cm high; weighs 2 kg

Honest age: paint loss and crazing, greyed and pin-holed timber (old borer trace), rusted corner metal

Every KOBK object is one of one and carries its age honestly. Expect marks, wear and patina as part of the piece; any specific fault is noted above. Where an object is photographed on a stand, the stand is included.

Notes

Cottee's is about as Australian as a brand gets, cordial and jam and Passiona, on the kitchen table for the better part of a century. This is one of its delivery crates, the kind that rattled off the back of a truck full of bottles, and someone has hand-painted the name straight onto the yellow, Cottee's in loose red script, brush and a breath of spray shadow, not a stencil.

Turn it over and the crate tells the truth about its old job, rows of dark rings ghosted into the base where the bottles stood for years. Decorative now rather than working, one painted face, honest Australiana with a real past.