Topic: Bavarian snuff bottle

[josordoni]

This is very pretty little Bavarian snuff bottle - solid blue glass, not flashed, with enamelled flowers to back, with flowers and place name Andenken to front - obviously a tourist piece, would I be right to assume late Victorian?
 roughly 4.25  ins  105 mm tall

[Quackers]

Hi, my German is really rusty but doesn't Andenken mean "gift" :huh:

[Frank]

memory.

Cap is to loose for snuff, perhaps used to carry some scented water on a neckchain...

[Ivo]

Hi, my German is really rusty but doesn't Andenken mean "gift" :huh:

nope it is "souvenir"

[Lustrousstone]

Looks like its got little tweezery things attached to the cap  :huh:

[Quackers]

Frank and Ivo - thanks.  I only remembered it because of a plant I grow - Aster novae-angliae 'Andenken an Alma Pötschke' - which I'd always understood meant that it was a New England aster that came from Alma Pötschke   It's lurid pink.

Sorry Lynne, not helping with your bottle

[josordoni]

Looks like its got little tweezery things attached to the cap  :huh:

The bottom bit sort of expands outwards to fit the stopper to the neck of the bottle. 

Interesting that Andenken just means souvenir - you would expect an Andeken from somewhere wouldn't you?

Frank the bottle is actually quite heavy, I wouldn't want to wear it on a chain...

here are some more pics

[Frank]

So just an ornament then.

[josordoni]

So just an ornament then.

Most things are in the end.