Topic: Can anyone help me put a date to this perfume bottle

[brucebanner]

Hello again can anyone help me put a date and makers name to this piece of glass. It has a hallmarked lid with the lion, a Victorian or at least i think Victorian shield for Chester and the date letter, the only one that comes close is is for 1738 or 1913 it just does not make any sense, it's very heavy thick cut glass and the base is razor sharp making me think it's been lead polished rather than acid finished so it must be at least pre first world war, i'm working on these picture issues, this type of glass is difficult to photo with low resolution pictures, thanks regards Chris.

[agincourt17]

Do you have a clearer photo of the hallmarks, please, (especially the date latter)?


If not can you clarify what the date letter is?

Fred.

[brucebanner]

Hello Fred looking at the hallmark it's an n the same shape as a 1913 dated n or the 1738 version of the n, i do not think it's that old though probably 1913 or at least the silver cap is.

[agincourt17]

I'm pretty sure that the silver collar is hallmarked for Chester 1913-14. Rather than the 1913 town mark of a shield with 3 wheatsheaves and a vertical sword, the 1738 town mark would have been a shield with three lions in its left part and half of the Chester City arm in the right one.

Antique cut glass is not my field, but normally an early 18th century piece of cut glass would be expected to show considerable wear to the base.

Stylistically, The 'petal' feet to the base rim are not dissimilar in style to the pincered petal feet found on late Victorian and early 20th centure pressed glass decanters.

Fred.

[Paul S.]

with these things there's always the possibility of imported glass with the mount added afterwards.             Assume there is a small well-fitting ground stopper inside the silver cap  -  I've no idea since I don't collect scents, but just wondering if  -  like some cut decanters and pickles  -  might there be matching Nos. on bodies and stoppers??