Topic: Cobalt blue poison? perfume bottles? help please

[brucebanner]

No idea on an age or use for these.

The stoppers are moulded but hand cut.

The taller is 3 1/2 inches and the smaller 2 3/4 inches both with stoppers in.

Regards Chris.

[chopin-liszt]

 
Are the insides of the necks ground? How good is the fit? Do they pass the "stopper-fit test" - where, when you twist the stopper gently and slightly to make it grip, then carefully try to lift the whole thing by the stopper (with a hand underneath, to catch it, in case it doesn't work). It it can be lifted it might be correct.

Another thing to look for is does the stopper fit into the neck, height wise? Is it too long or too short?

My guts don't feel these stoppers belong at all; that they might have been an "arranged marriage in the back room" of a charity shop.

[brucebanner]

Yes Sue ground Inner and outer and a beautiful Fit on Both

[chopin-liszt]

 
Ah well. Thought I was being clever there.

(I'm currently swithering about a stopper in a bottle I bought today. It passes the "stopper fit test", but the ground area sits a bit high for my liking. Shame. It's a "Lalique perfume bottle", found in a charity shop! I really should leave PBs alone, as I should pwts. I go wrong when I'm out of my comfort area. Perhaps that's why my guts were suspicious.)

They do look apothecary-ish. Blue does indicate "not for comsumption", but they don't have the ribbing for indicating "do not take" for folk who are blind.

[brucebanner]

Yes have a decanter with a nice fitting stopper that sits about 4mm above where the original would have been still your being what it is is a great buy

[chopin-liszt]

 
I'm not quite so sure. I suspect it might be a "tribute", designed to catch folk like me, hence it ending up where it did.
I'll have to post pics and give it a thread now, won't I? sorry for being OT.

With the wide necks on your bottles, they might have been for storing medicinal "powders"? I can't see them being new/recent, not with ground inside necks. The blue colour of the glass might have protected sensitive chemicals from daylight.
They're reminding me a bit of bottles that contained things like Tincture of Iodine and Gentian Violet.

I like them.