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Small green bottle with metal casing - 1/22/2012 8:13:29 PM    Jillana   Posts: 3 Joined: 1/22/2012 Status: offline Hey there. I'm so excited I found this forum. I recently purchased this beautiful bottle so that I can use it as an ink well (yes, I just bought a quill as well!) The guy at the flea market said that it is from the 1890's-1900's and that the metal casing was added later. He also said that it would have been used for smelling salts. He had lots of random antiques at his table so I'm not too sure if he knew what he was talking about. But I know you guys would!! Appreciate any year/value estimates (although I have no intentions of selling it any time soon...) Thanks! Attachment (1) < Message edited by Jillana -- 1/22/2012 8:14:25 PM > Post #: 1

RE: Small green bottle with metal casing - 1/22/2012 8:16:21 PM    Jillana   Posts: 3 Joined: 1/22/2012 Status: offline There is also this serial number stamped on the bottom... Attachment (1) (in reply to Jillana) Post #: 2

RE: Small green bottle with metal casing - 1/22/2012 8:21:59 PM    cyberdigger Posts: 12319 Joined: 11/29/2008 From: I 195 @ US 9, NJ USA Status: online Wow that's beautiful! (in reply to Jillana) Post #: 3

RE: Small green bottle with metal casing - 1/22/2012 8:23:50 PM    epackage Posts: 9911 Joined: 5/3/2009 From: Jersey Status: offline Bath salts I think from around 1890, the metal holder is new to me....value is not easy to determine with the added metal holder....Welcome to the Forum.....Jim I imagine it had a label similar to one like this at one time... Attachment (1) < Message edited by epackage -- 1/22/2012 8:26:35 PM > _____________________________ I WANT PATERSON NJ BOTTLES !! Being NICE for the SAKE of OTHERS !!! (in reply to cyberdigger) Post #: 4

RE: Small green bottle with metal casing - 1/22/2012 8:25:40 PM    surfaceone Posts: 7141 Joined: 12/9/2008 Status: offline Hello Jillana, Welcome, and thanks for showing us your new "inkwell." It looks like a TOC smelling salts to me, though its difficult to see with the gilded cage effect going on there. What is the size? It's a classic smelling salts form. From. (in reply to Jillana) Post #: 5

RE: Small green bottle with metal casing - 1/22/2012 8:36:22 PM    Jillana   Posts: 3 Joined: 1/22/2012 Status: offline It measures 3 inches tall (up to the top of the stopper) and 1.5 inches wide. And might I add that that I've never had such a large amount of quick replies on a forum. You guys are serious about your bottles, that's for sure! Jillana (in reply to surfaceone) Post #: 6

RE: Small green bottle with metal casing - 1/22/2012 8:37:44 PM    cyberdigger Posts: 12319 Joined: 11/29/2008 From: I 195 @ US 9, NJ USA Status: online I'm afraid I can't endorse the idea of your using it as an ink well.. the ink could easily glue the stopper in place.. (in reply to Jillana) Post #: 7

RE: Small green bottle with metal casing - 1/22/2012 8:38:14 PM    epackage Posts: 9911 Joined: 5/3/2009 From: Jersey Status: offline Bath Salts for sure, I hope you enjoy using it....Jim _____________________________ I WANT PATERSON NJ BOTTLES !! Being NICE for the SAKE of OTHERS !!! (in reply to Jillana) Post #: 8

RE: Small green bottle with metal casing - 1/22/2012 9:13:23 PM    surfaceone Posts: 7141 Joined: 12/9/2008 Status: offline Smelling salts... (in reply to epackage) Post #: 9

RE: Small green bottle with metal casing - 1/22/2012 9:21:14 PM    cyberdigger Posts: 12319 Joined: 11/29/2008 From: I 195 @ US 9, NJ USA Status: online (in reply to surfaceone) Post #: 10

RE: Small green bottle with metal casing - 1/22/2012 9:27:16 PM    Wheelah23 Posts: 4300 Joined: 8/9/2010 From: Glen Ridge, New Jersey Status: offline That's refreshing... An antique dealer that's actually honest about their merchandise! Some antique shop owner sold an ABM Vaseline jar for $30 to my grandpa, and claimed it was pre 1900! The guy was pretty much spot on, I think. That metal stuff was probably added on later. Smelling/bath salts bottle, and a cool looking one at that. < Message edited by Wheelah23 -- 1/22/2012 9:28:26 PM > _____________________________ Looking for bottles from Glen Ridge, Montclair, Bloomfield, Orange, East Orange, West Orange, South Orange, and if I like 'em, any other bottles from Essex County NJ! Also Manahawkin NJ! Message me if you want to find them a new home. (in reply to surfaceone) Post #: 11

RE: Small green bottle with metal casing - 1/22/2012 9:31:51 PM    epackage Posts: 9911 Joined: 5/3/2009 From: Jersey Status: offline quote: ORIGINAL: surfaceone Smelling salts... I keep seeing Lavender Salts but I don't see a label in good enough condition to read if they were for bath or reviving women with "The Vapors".....LOL _____________________________ I WANT PATERSON NJ BOTTLES !! Being NICE for the SAKE of OTHERS !!! (in reply to surfaceone) Post #: 12

RE: Small green bottle with metal casing - 1/22/2012 9:37:13 PM    surfaceone Posts: 7141 Joined: 12/9/2008 Status: offline British Registration number placing it in the 1901 range, Per this place. (in reply to Jillana) Post #: 13

RE: Small green bottle with metal casing - 1/22/2012 9:37:36 PM    epackage Posts: 9911 Joined: 5/3/2009 From: Jersey Status: offline SURFY is right, here is the scoop....Seems they were also the reason the smelling salts were needed... The Crown Perfumery was launched in 1872 in London by William S. (Sparks) Thompson, an American industrialist from Connecticut. Starting in life as a dry goods clerk, Thnompson went on to found at least half a dozen successful enterprises. He was the first to manufacture crinolines in the United States and the first to manufacture corsets by machine. "Thompson's Glove-Fitting Corset" was a huge success on both sides of the Atlantic. Queen Victoria of England was a customer. Two versions of the founding of the Crown Perfumery have been given. In the first (see "Doctor Basenotes") women were fainting from exertions involved in corset fitting and William Thompson Jr., a chemist, developed a lavender based smelling salt to provide for their revival. The smelling salt developed into the Crown Perfumery. < Message edited by epackage -- 1/22/2012 9:38:17 PM > _____________________________ I WANT PATERSON NJ BOTTLES !! Being NICE for the SAKE of OTHERS !!! (in reply to epackage) Post #: 14

RE: Small green bottle with metal casing - 1/22/2012 10:00:23 PM    surfaceone Posts: 7141 Joined: 12/9/2008 Status: offline Hey Jim, Is Rabbit season over? I was just gonna say that the lavender was part of an old recipe to counteract the sharp effects of the ammonia fumes. See Here. (in reply to epackage) Post #: 15

RE: Small green bottle with metal casing - 1/23/2012 1:01:30 AM    surfaceone Posts: 7141 Joined: 12/9/2008 Status: offline quote: "Thompson's Glove-Fitting Corset" From. (in reply to epackage) Post #: 16

RE: Small green bottle with metal casing - 1/23/2012 3:29:26 PM    RED Matthews Posts: 2396 Joined: 8/2/2008 Status: offline Hello,  Regarding metal covered bottles.  I have a three sided decanter with a pewter metal covering covering the neck below the finish and down to the center of the body of the bottle.   I also have a quart beverage bottle with a metal body covering that had holes in it so the glass protrudes larger in a domed diameter form.  I have found no information on the second one.  RED Matthews _____________________________ http://www.bottlemysteries.com/welcome/ (in reply to surfaceone) Post #: 17

RE: Small green bottle with metal casing - 1/23/2012 4:36:30 PM    Blackglass   Posts: 538 Joined: 10/26/2009 From: Grafton Co. New Hampshire Status: offline The metal holder looks like it could be made of sterling silver. Are there any other markings on the case?  _____________________________ Looking for non-screw or crown top sodas,beers, & ect, BIM medicines, bitters, druggists, and anything hand blown and black glass. (in reply to RED Matthews) Post #: 18

RE: Small green bottle with metal casing - 1/24/2012 1:18:57 AM    surfaceone Posts: 7141 Joined: 12/9/2008 Status: offline quote: I keep seeing Lavender Salts but I don't see a label in good enough condition to read if they were for bath or reviving women with "The Vapors".....LOL Hey Jim, We shoulda looked to Mark CazDigger: From. (in reply to epackage) Post #: 19

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