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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 9781057, member: 2844&quot;]I am so glad you checked, Marote, because what you found is a perfect example of what happens when someone puts perfume in a kohl bottle.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie45" alt=":facepalm:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p>A former owner must have used it as a perfume bottle. This happened decades ago, but over a period of years.</p><p>I have talked about this kind of effect with [USER=88]@bercrystal[/USER] , she&#039;ll be interested in this too.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/wink.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=";)" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Bottles like this were glued. The amber/gold/brown stuff is a coagulated mixture of glue that was dissolved in perfume (alcohol etc).</p><p>The green stuff is verdigris together with the dissolved glue-perfume mixture. The verdigris is the result of liquids kept in a copper alloy for a long time. The silvertone metal on both our bottles is a copper alloy.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;d hate to think what could have happened to the former owner&#039;s skin.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie67" alt=":nurse:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> She probably stopped using it when the perfume came out looking drab and didn&#039;t smell right anymore. But the process had been going on for a long time before she stopped.</p><p><br /></p><p>Unfortunately both kohl bottles and snuff bottles are often misused like this. It damages the bottles (inside painted snuff bottles!<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie66" alt=":nailbiting:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />), and can cause an allergic reaction to the skin.</p><p>So thank you for showing us the gunk, Marote, this is like a teaching tool.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/wink.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=";)" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/smile.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":)" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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