Featured Tiny perfume bottle, Victorian or vintage?

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  1. Elen Beattie

    Elen Beattie Well-Known Member

    Hi all! This cute little green glass perfume bottle was amongst an auction lot I won recently. I have seen similar listed as "Victorian" and others "vintage". I'm wondering if you can tell me if it is older or not? Also, what would be on the inside of the bottle, something that the perfume soaked into? It looks like a little puffball or something organic, but I can't see it very well! It is only 2"H. Thanks for any info! Image - 2022-11-14T094227.069.jpeg Image - 2022-11-14T094235.151.jpeg Image - 2022-11-14T094244.258.jpeg Image - 2022-11-12T153047.474.jpeg Image - 2022-11-12T153057.281.jpeg Image - 2022-11-12T153125.801.jpeg
     
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  2. komokwa

    komokwa The Truth is out there...!

    smelling salts....??
     
  3. KikoBlueEyes

    KikoBlueEyes Well-Known Member

    Gorgeous color.
     
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  4. Elen Beattie

    Elen Beattie Well-Known Member

    Ooh, maybe?!
     
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  5. Ce BCA

    Ce BCA Well-Known Member

    Looks like a late Victorian one to me.
     
  6. Ownedbybear

    Ownedbybear Well-Known Member

    Smelling salts, that is. With the remains of a sponge. Late 19th.
     
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  7. evelyb30

    evelyb30 Well-Known Member

    Seconded. Cute little thing.
     
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  8. Elen Beattie

    Elen Beattie Well-Known Member

    You are all so helpful (as always) thank you!! :)
     
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  9. silverbell

    silverbell Well-Known Member

    See if there is the faintest whiff. Smelling salts seem to last like the Energizer Bunny!
     
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  10. Elen Beattie

    Elen Beattie Well-Known Member

    There is indeed a whiff! :shame: Not unpleasant though.
     
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  11. Ownedbybear

    Ownedbybear Well-Known Member

    Dark green and dark blue glass are often used, they preserved the salts from the light.
     
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  12. silverbell

    silverbell Well-Known Member

    LOL! I once used one made by Yardley to revive a lady who fainted. It was my Grandmother's, and at that time, the bottle was well over 50 years old.

    Apparently the lady had never experienced smelling salts before, as she seemed to think I was attacking her! I'm not too sure she believed me when I explained that the stuff in the little bottle was a well-known restorative for ladies with the vapors.

    (Grandmother's bottle is yet in my medicine chest and still going strong!)
     
  13. Elen Beattie

    Elen Beattie Well-Known Member

    What a great story! :hilarious::D
     
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