A rare 'anchor' wine label
£750
Auction: Jewellery, Silver & Watches
Description
Phipps and Robinson, London 1808, cast in the form of a fouled anchor, engraved 'Bucellas' across the stock, cord fouled detail
Dimensions
Width: 42mm, weight: 14g
Footnote
Provenance: Ex. Tom Allder Collection through Nick Shaw
Provenance :The David Constable Collection of Drinking Vessels & Wine Labels
Note: Bucellas is a district near Lisbon, producing a white wine, there are various spellings of the name. This is unusually fully marked for a label of this pattern
Salter, John. Wine Labels 1730-2003 p. 80-81, A.C.C., 2004. for commentary regarding the use of the anchor in wine labels