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Victorian Ladies glass items, Indian Maiden and a ladie... - 5/21/2011 10:20:32 PM    Steve/sewell Posts: 4295 Joined: 1/23/2010 Status: offline I picked up these two nice objects in Glassboro New Jersey.The Indian Maiden I am still trying to figure out what she might have contained.Her Lower portion pedestal is flattened on each side and is the widest point in the bottle suggesting a back bar sort of dencantur.The bottle is a very pretty pale sea green in color and is pontiled has a little base wear,stands 12 inches tall and has a lip similar to the Simons Bitters Bottle.The detail on the bottle is excellent except for her face which has a weak impression.If anyone here at the forum has ever encountered this one and knows anything in reference to what it might have contained or where it may have been manufactured I would greatly appreciate to hear from you. The ladies spittoon is really quite explanatory.Those Victorian babes could chew with the best of them.Between the years of 1830 to 1880 tobacco chewing was widely accepted for both men and women as only affluent men could afford a good cigar.The ladies had the spittoons shaped like a ladies midrif.The mans spittoon was shaped more like a common deep bowl.The ladies in this time period were quite the abusers of tobacco and alcohol as evidenced by the amount of bottles we find in the privys.The majority of the bitters,Liquor,anything with alcohol were more then likely tossed down the pooper by the ladies who snuck it outside and drank to avoid being caught by their husbands.This spittoon has a historical connection to the Whitney glass works. The color is dead on of other known Whitney products. Attachment (1) _____________________________ Auf Wiedersehen Post #: 1

RE: Victorian Ladies glass items, Indian Maiden and a l... - 5/21/2011 10:21:00 PM    Steve/sewell Posts: 4295 Joined: 1/23/2010 Status: offline 2. Attachment (1) _____________________________ Auf Wiedersehen (in reply to Steve/sewell) Post #: 2

RE: Victorian Ladies glass items, Indian Maiden and a l... - 5/21/2011 10:21:22 PM    Steve/sewell Posts: 4295 Joined: 1/23/2010 Status: offline 3. Attachment (1) _____________________________ Auf Wiedersehen (in reply to Steve/sewell) Post #: 3

RE: Victorian Ladies glass items, Indian Maiden and a l... - 5/21/2011 10:21:52 PM    Steve/sewell Posts: 4295 Joined: 1/23/2010 Status: offline 4. Attachment (1) _____________________________ Auf Wiedersehen (in reply to Steve/sewell) Post #: 4

RE: Victorian Ladies glass items, Indian Maiden and a l... - 5/21/2011 10:22:16 PM    Steve/sewell Posts: 4295 Joined: 1/23/2010 Status: offline 5. Attachment (1) _____________________________ Auf Wiedersehen (in reply to Steve/sewell) Post #: 5

RE: Victorian Ladies glass items, Indian Maiden and a l... - 5/21/2011 10:22:38 PM    Steve/sewell Posts: 4295 Joined: 1/23/2010 Status: offline 6. Attachment (1) _____________________________ Auf Wiedersehen (in reply to Steve/sewell) Post #: 6

RE: Victorian Ladies glass items, Indian Maiden and a l... - 5/21/2011 10:23:09 PM    Steve/sewell Posts: 4295 Joined: 1/23/2010 Status: offline 7. Attachment (1) _____________________________ Auf Wiedersehen (in reply to Steve/sewell) Post #: 7

RE: Victorian Ladies glass items, Indian Maiden and a l... - 5/21/2011 10:23:36 PM    Steve/sewell Posts: 4295 Joined: 1/23/2010 Status: offline 8. the lip is very similar to the Simons Centennial Bitters. Attachment (1) < Message edited by Steve/sewell -- 5/21/2011 10:24:33 PM > _____________________________ Auf Wiedersehen (in reply to Steve/sewell) Post #: 8

RE: Victorian Ladies glass items, Indian Maiden and a l... - 5/21/2011 10:24:56 PM    Steve/sewell Posts: 4295 Joined: 1/23/2010 Status: offline 9. Attachment (1) _____________________________ Auf Wiedersehen (in reply to Steve/sewell) Post #: 9

RE: Victorian Ladies glass items, Indian Maiden and a l... - 5/21/2011 10:25:54 PM    Steve/sewell Posts: 4295 Joined: 1/23/2010 Status: offline 1.The bowl is 6 inches tall and 7 inches wide at the rim. Attachment (1) < Message edited by Steve/sewell -- 5/21/2011 10:26:59 PM > _____________________________ Auf Wiedersehen (in reply to Steve/sewell) Post #: 10

RE: Victorian Ladies glass items, Indian Maiden and a l... - 5/21/2011 10:26:14 PM    Steve/sewell Posts: 4295 Joined: 1/23/2010 Status: offline 2.The drum top table the two pieces are resting on is a 1770s Chippendale drum top table my Wife and I purchased in Salem New Jersey.The table was in the home of a Revolutionary war doctor.We piceked up the table today. Attachment (1) < Message edited by Steve/sewell -- 5/21/2011 10:33:32 PM > _____________________________ Auf Wiedersehen (in reply to Steve/sewell) Post #: 11

RE: Victorian Ladies glass items, Indian Maiden and a l... - 5/21/2011 10:27:26 PM    Steve/sewell Posts: 4295 Joined: 1/23/2010 Status: offline 3. Attachment (1) _____________________________ Auf Wiedersehen (in reply to Steve/sewell) Post #: 12

RE: Victorian Ladies glass items, Indian Maiden and a l... - 5/21/2011 10:27:53 PM    Steve/sewell Posts: 4295 Joined: 1/23/2010 Status: offline 4.On this picture you can see a few potstones scattered through out the piece. Attachment (1) < Message edited by Steve/sewell -- 5/21/2011 10:28:49 PM > _____________________________ Auf Wiedersehen (in reply to Steve/sewell) Post #: 13

RE: Victorian Ladies glass items, Indian Maiden and a l... - 5/21/2011 10:29:15 PM    Steve/sewell Posts: 4295 Joined: 1/23/2010 Status: offline 5. Attachment (1) _____________________________ Auf Wiedersehen (in reply to Steve/sewell) Post #: 14

RE: Victorian Ladies glass items, Indian Maiden and a l... - 5/21/2011 10:29:37 PM    Steve/sewell Posts: 4295 Joined: 1/23/2010 Status: offline 6. Attachment (1) _____________________________ Auf Wiedersehen (in reply to Steve/sewell) Post #: 15

RE: Victorian Ladies glass items, Indian Maiden and a l... - 5/21/2011 10:34:43 PM    Steve/sewell Posts: 4295 Joined: 1/23/2010 Status: offline The decanter bottle looks very similar to the Indian Queen Bitters.Now for a little humor. Attachment (1) < Message edited by Steve/sewell -- 5/21/2011 10:35:56 PM > _____________________________ Auf Wiedersehen (in reply to Steve/sewell) Post #: 16

RE: Victorian Ladies glass items, Indian Maiden and a l... - 5/22/2011 5:23:59 PM    cyberdigger Posts: 12319 Joined: 11/29/2008 From: I 195 @ US 9, NJ USA Status: online Howdy Steve old buddy! You find some really cool things out there, I don't know how you do it! I'd love to know what that pretty gal contained..!! < Message edited by cyberdigger -- 5/22/2011 5:24:24 PM > (in reply to Steve/sewell) Post #: 17

RE: Victorian Ladies glass items, Indian Maiden and a l... - 5/22/2011 8:20:30 PM    surfaceone Posts: 7141 Joined: 12/9/2008 Status: offline Hey Steve, Happy Buy a Musical Instrument Day, it's a good thing you got that table yesterday. I haven't come down to the Historic basement in a while to bother you, but "here I is." I've never seen your bottle before, but I'm wondering why you are considering her an "Indian Maiden?" Style wise, looking at her dress, i'm wondering if those are not Leg-o-mutton sleeves she's sporting. What do you think? "Early 1890s dresses consisted of a tight bodice with the skirt gathered at the waist and falling more naturally over the hips and undergarments than in previous years. The mid 1890s introduced leg o'mutton sleeves, which grew in size each year until they disappeared in about 1906. During the same period of the mid '90s, skirts took on an A-line silhouette that was almost bell-like." From. The bottle certainly seems to predate the Gay 90's, so consider me amongst the head scratchers... (in reply to Steve/sewell) Post #: 18

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