Victorian Clear Double Pickle Castor
(Item: 2296)

Victorian Clear Double Pickle Castor w/Viking Heads Feet, and Stork Lids

A very striking and exceptionally nice double pickle castor. It was manufactured by E.G. Webster & Brother and is numbered "38." It has eight feet in the shape of Viking heads, and the lids are storks feeding. The jars are nice and heavy, thick glass, with bands of matching etched flowers and ferns, The jars are nearly mint, no chips, cracks, with only one nearly invisible flea bite on one rim. The inserts fit the frame perfectly, and the lids fit the inserts just as well. The frame has been re-silvered. The pickle fork is 1847 Rogers Brothers with a twist handle. The dimensions of the castor frame are: 8 1/4" long, 3 5/8" wide, and 10 1/8" tall. The inserts are 3 ½" in diameter and 4 3/16" tall. You'll have to hunt pretty far to find another double pickle castor as nice as this one, so why not add it to your collection?!

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Double Pickle Castor with Viking Heads Feet, and Stork Lids

The inserts fit the frame perfectly, and the lids fit the inserts just as well.

The frame has been re-silvered.

The lids of the pickle castor jars.

The lids are storks feeding.

There are eight feet in the shape of Viking heads.

The jars are nice and heavy, made of thick glass, with bands of matching etched flowers and ferns. The jars are nearly mint, no chips, cracks, with only one nearly invisible flea bite.

The pickle fork is 1847 Rogers Brothers with a twist handle.

The fork is marked ND on the handle.

The pickle castor was manufactured by E.G. Webster & Brother, and numbered "38."

The dimensions of the double pickle castor frame are: 8 1/4" long, 3 5/8" wide, adn 10 1/8" tall; inserts- 3 1/2" in diameter and 4 3/16" tall.

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