A sealed and dated 'mallet' wine-bottle
1731
Of dark-brown tint, applied with a seal inscribed I Rumboll Calne .1731., the tapering neck with a string-ring, with kick-in base (slight chips to rim and one to string-ring)
6¼in. (16cm.) high
Lot Essay
Recorded by Roger Dumbrell, op. cit., p. 303 and Sheelah Ruggles Brise, Sealed Bottles (1949), p. 136.