Topic: Mystery objects - do you know what they are? - ID = DeVilbiss sprays

[Anne]

I've had these a while but not got around to posting them... and as someone suggested having a mystery object to test your grey cells against, how about these for starters?

They are quite small - only a couple of inches tall, but the metal part is around 4-5 inches. Inside them you might be able to see a tube going down from the lid, and each of them came with a spare tube - you can see them laid across the bottom inside each glass part.

Any suggestions as to

1. what they were used for
2. maker
3. age

 :rn:

(I should say they are marked on a part you can't see on the photos so I do know what they are. I'll reveal all in a couple of days if no-one gets it right.)

[antiquerose123]

Hi Anne - I think I suggested the Mystery object in a post...

So I will take a crack at it...

A).  For either your Nose or your Throat (like a spray...?atomizer??)
B).  I will say DeVilBliss
C).  Age -- maybe the 1940's

   :huh:

[Margi]

AT first glance I also thought atomizers then I thought salt and pepper.  Also because of a severe lack of sleep due to OH not arriving home till 4am I also thought colourful daleks hahaha  :ooh:

[pamela]

Good morning  :hi:
I might recall we used these at school (art excersizes) as atomizers of 'Fixativ' on charcoal paintings  :pb:  :ooh:

[Ivo]

I think I went to school around the same time as Pamela. We had a much simpeler version of these - for applying a fixative to charcoal drawings. The fixative goes into the pot, and blowing through the tube will aerosol the contents over the paper.

[jsmeasell]

Looks like what we call "airbrush" but used with "mouth power" in years past.

[Anne]

Thanks to all who took a punt at this, and in fact it was Rose who guessed correctly!  :hiclp: Well done Rose!!!   :rah: :rah: :rah:

I've added shots of the tops of each showing the wording - they are DeVilbiss throat sprayers but missing their rubber tubes and balloons. The DeVilbiss website has a history of their development, and it's thanks to these that perfume atomisers came about too:
http://www.devilbisseu.com/news.aspx?id=31

[Cathy B]

 :rah: :rah: :rah: :rah: Rose!!!! Onya!

I would have gone for very, very small Darleks, too 

[antiquerose123]

:rah: :rah: :rah: :rah: Rose!!!! Onya!

I would have gone for very, very small Darleks, too 

 

Now do not think I have *googling skills* or *smart* on this one, because that is not so. 

The fact the ions ago (2008), I had posted a Devilbliss atomizer here -- so *just* going by that -- I took a guess.  As mine is still really different that this one.  * see My Post Here *.  So I was still just taking a guess solely due to what I had....and hoping  :X: it might be close.  I think I am spending Way to much time on the Net.....

The date was also a guess.....was that close at all??

What did I win?   :24: :24: