Lot Essay
In the first of the two publications above, both sides of the bottle are illustrated with a pencil rubbing of the two sides showing how well defined the coin actually is.
For another 'Eight Reales' bottle bearing the date 1789 formerly in the Joseph Baruch Silver Collection, see Alexander Brody, Old Wine into Old Bottles, A Collector's Commonplace Book, Hong Kong, 1993, pp. 26-27 and 148, no. 26
For another 'Eight Reales' bottle bearing the date 1789 formerly in the Joseph Baruch Silver Collection, see Alexander Brody, Old Wine into Old Bottles, A Collector's Commonplace Book, Hong Kong, 1993, pp. 26-27 and 148, no. 26