Tiniest bottle - Hollywood Laboratories Toronto

[coaljungle]

Hi everyone, I'm new to the forum and look forward to some great conversations!

I found this today in a dump site that has a mix of Victorian trash and 40s/50s trash (the latter was bulldozed onto the former). I assume this tiny glass bottle is from the 40s/50s.

The label seems to say:
W____
_il___
Hollywood
Laboratories (?)
Toronto

Anyone know what this is? It's super cool and I can't find any info online.

 

[cowseatmaize]

Hi, it looks like a higher end perfume or some other cosmetic.The making was done using colored glass rods in the making. The name for that escapes me, caning I think.

 

[sunrunner]

this type of glass you see in lamp work , the was they make glass pipes today. the vile looks 1920s.

 

[botlguy]

I believe Eric has it, high end perfume, mid 20th century, probably some fair collectors value but cannot be specific. Jim

 

[coaljungle]

Thanks for your replies. I'm hoping someone will find this thread who can at least help me to know WHAT to search the web for, in order to find info! Image searches for things like "tiny striped perfume bottle" with variations of "Hollywood laboratories Toronto" haven't turned up anything similar. Also tried omitting "perfume", etc. I hope this means it's rare and valuable!

 

[glass man]

Could have been a med. vial to stick an injection needle into ..draw the med out and give a person a shot of whatever it was..it does say it was from a LAB..JAMIE

 

[coaljungle]

That does make sense, Jamie. Do you think there would have been some kind of attachment with the needle piece that would allow for drawing and injecting? Because with the bottle being glass, it cannot be squeezed to move liquid in/out.

 

[logueb]

It may be an Art Deco German Filament Perfume bottle that had a brass screw top cap. Just a guess. Buster

 

[CanadianBottles]

There's no way that was a medicine bottle. WAY too fancy to be anything that was injected, except for maybe some high-class designer drugs if it were in use today. Also, remember the fact that the name is Hollywood Laboratories. Hollywood was where all the movie stars were back then as well, so the name had an association with expensive fashion and, by extension, perfumes.