Perfume bottle

1850-1900

Measurements

5-1/8 in x 1-3/4 in x 7/8 in

Materials

Colorless glass, silver

Credit Line

Historic Odessa Foundation, The David Wilson Mansion, Inc.

Accession Number

1971.1527

Inscription

"GM 32" (?) in relief in a rectangle and an arrow piercing a zero within an oval are stamped into the molded cap immediately above the hinge connecting it to the collar.

Condition Notes

The area around the hinge has breaks and is weak.

Provenance

Ex coll. Mrs. E. Tatnall (Mary Corbit) Warner

Comments

This molded colorless glass perfume bottle has a silver cap hinged to a molded collar around the top of the bottle.  The bottle shape has four projecting ribs, the outermost edges of which are scalloped ogees (i.e.. S shapes).