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MAISON DORIN - Paris...dug item - 2/10/2003 11:47:59 PM    Flaschenjager Posts: 1140 Joined: 12/21/2002 From: Central Virginia - USA Status: offline Hello everyone, I' m aware that this isn' t a bottle, but I found this downtown years ago digging for old glass and haven' t investigated it much. Someone that was recently on my websites saw this pictured and wanted to know what this was. He said that he dug one last week and (myself included) would like some info on it. What was it used for, the product, age, etc. I always thought that they were potlids or similiar. They are 2 3/16" in dia. X 1/4" in height (pretty small). The plain one is made of a white material (ironstone maybe), the other seems to be a tan/grey stoneware. They both have rounded, beveled edges. A clear glaze covers the top, while the underside is unglazed. The stoneware one has a semi-smeared transfer in black with words including: MAISON DORIN - 27 B (or a R) GRENIER ST. LAZARE PARIS -FARD DE TOI [L] ETTE - MARQUE DE FABRIQUE - Depose (at top center). The very center has the DORIN letter logo. I' d love to hear some comments, questions and of course answers. I will post a close up in a following post. Thanks to all, ' Meech' Always check my sites - sign and view my guestbook at: http://members.aol.com/meechuta/bottles.html Attachment (1) Post #: 1

DORIN - Paris...dug item while bottle scooping - 2/10/2003 11:55:08 PM    Flaschenjager Posts: 1140 Joined: 12/21/2002 From: Central Virginia - USA Status: offline Here' s a closer look for more detail. Once again, Thanks.....' Meech' Attachment (1) (in reply to Flaschenjager) Post #: 2

RE: MAISON DORIN - Paris...dug item - 2/11/2003 5:08:08 AM    Guest FARD is ' makeup' in Engish - as in cosmetics used to color and beautify the face or other parts of the body. So this is probably the lid of a small cosmetic case containing compressed powder for the face. Not very old by the look of it - c1920? (in reply to Flaschenjager)   Post #: 3

MAISON DORIN - Paris...dug item - 2/11/2003 2:04:58 PM    Flaschenjager Posts: 1140 Joined: 12/21/2002 From: Central Virginia - USA Status: offline Hi Roger and everyone, Thanks for the clue and ideas on this object. I forgot to add that this was dug from a very large city dump site dating between 1860 - 1890. Turn of the century items were few and found closer to the surface. These were found 15-20 feet below the street level and the deeper we dug (w/ machines of course), as with most digs, the older the items were. Circa 1920 could be correct, but everything else excavated from there was many years earlier (from that level). This is the site that I mention on my Finds page where thousands of bottles littered a city block. Anyway, I' m hoping that some additional info will surface. Once again, Thanks - ' Meech' (in reply to Flaschenjager) Post #: 4

RE: MAISON DORIN - Paris...dug item - 2/15/2003 5:34:22 PM    Guest These quite regularly turn up in UK dumps from either side of 1900. In 25 years I have never dug a pot which one of these fitted and I think this top fitted on a card pot. The contents were a toilet cream - no, not for the lavatory - but a perfumed sludge that ladies use & men don' t understand. The back of the lid usually has circular grooves and it is likely that this caused a suction effect with the cream which stopped it from falling off. Occasionally one of these will turn up in a 1920s dump, but these later ones have no grooves I also have an example (c 1910?) in the shape of a stopper with the same size top as yours. John Woodhams WWW.oldbottleman.co.uk _____________________________ Always looking Mint Cola bottles, and local bottles from North Carolina (in reply to Flaschenjager)   Post #: 5

RE: MAISON DORIN - Paris...dug item - 2/23/2003 3:22:52 PM    Guest i have dug these lids in the midwest usually from privys dating 1900 or older poss.back to 1890. fairly common . (in reply to Guest)   Post #: 6

RE: MAISON DORIN - Paris...dug item - 3/4/2003 10:27:37 AM    Guest Hello again! Here' s the one I found. The dump I found it in is definitely dated to no later than mid 1920' s. Mine has a different address as you can see! Tom Clark Attachment (1) (in reply to Flaschenjager)   Post #: 7

Other side - 3/4/2003 10:28:49 AM    Guest Here' s the back Attachment (1) (in reply to Flaschenjager)   Post #: 8

Flipping your lid - 3/6/2003 10:14:14 PM    Flaschenjager Posts: 1140 Joined: 12/21/2002 From: Central Virginia - USA Status: offline Hey Tom, Welcome to the group and forum...glad you found it. My lids are smooth on the back and so was the other that I saw at the meeting. ' Meech' PS. There' s a link to an overhead picture of the Baltimore Bottle Show and Sell, which happened last Sunday, to all who may be interested on my main bottle site: http://members.aol.com/meechuta/bottles.html Diggin' days are few, but things are to pick up soon. (in reply to Guest) Post #: 9

RE: MAISON DORIN - Paris...dug item - 11/19/2003 5:07:26 PM    Redtailx   Posts: 8 Joined: 10/22/2003 From: Philadelphia Status: offline I Just dug one up last weekend and was wordering what it was from. Had no idea it would have been that common. (in reply to Flaschenjager) Post #: 10

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