perfume container

[Stonewall_Greyfox]

My fiancee' now has 3 small locket shaped perfume bottles. All three are small and of either brass or copper with painted floral designs on them. One is heart shaped and the other two are round. Each has a small screw in top/stopper with small pin sticking down into the containter. The main question is: would they be fitting for our period? If not does anyone have any information as to what period they might belong?

Thanks,

Paul B. Boulden Jr.

[Virginia Mescher]

Re: perfume container

My fiancee' now has 3 small locket shaped perfume bottles. All three are small and of either brass or copper with painted floral designs on them. One is heart shaped and the other two are round. Each has a small screw in top/stopper with small pin sticking down into the containter. The main question is: would they be fitting for our period? If not does anyone have any information as to what period they might belong?

Thanks,

Paul B. Boulden Jr.

I haven't researched perfume bottles, from looking at pictures of period perfume bottles, those shapes don't sound familiar. It could be that they were for smelling salts rather then perfume bottles.

There were a number of perfume bottles on the Steamboat Arabia but none match the item you described.

[Stonewall_Greyfox]

Re: perfume container

perhaps you could elaborate on smelling salts...we called it a perfume bottle because that is what we figured it might be. As I mentioned these are small and locket size....not sure if they are period or not.

Thanks,

Paul B. Boulden Jr.

RAH VA MIL '04