Featured silver scent bottle

Any info on this please i believe its a scent bottle but i cant work out the shape it represents.

 

Looks like something a barber would use to spray water. Not sure if it had a technical name.

 

size matters

 

The hardware says French to me.

Let me take a look at my books to see what I can find.

@komokwa is right. Measurements would be a good thing.

Also, does the hardware unscrew at any point? Since there is no place for a puff bulb there has to be some kind of mechanism to pump the liquid out.

 

ya, looks like a bulb would screw on..

 

Where would the bulb screw on?

If you are referring to the spot with the chain that is the nozzle where the liquid would come out.

It is possible that a part at the top of the piece unscrews & pressing down on that part allows the liquid to spray out the nozzle.

I did find on the 925 site that "S & Co." is British & was the mark for Spurrier & Company. They were located in Birmingham.

https://www.925-1000.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=158393&sid=1728970e9bb5743964cd2c59a1927007#p158393

The shape of the atomizer is almost identical to Marcel Franke design but I have not been able to locate another one like it.

 

I've seen cocktail shakers in that shape.

 

This is what I was referring to above.

This would likely have been a travel bottle. You would secure the pump apparatus while packed & release it when you wanted to use the bottle.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/32560928...efaultOrganicWeb&_trksid=p2047675.c101224.m-1

 

Just ran across this page for Birmingham marks. There were a few companies that seemed to use the S & Co. inside a rectangle mark.

https://www.silvermakersmarks.co.uk/Makers/Birmingham-SA-SA.html

 

The S&Co mark looks very much like the Birmingham-registered sponsor's mark of Sydney & Co. However without a Birmingham hallmark it is not possible to say so for certain. If it is their mark we could speculate that the bottle was made for export as it could not be sold in Britain without a hallmark.

Phil

 

here is one listed, looks like it extends in size, they think scent bottle too






https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/134028334416?hash=item1f34b61550:g:DIYAAOSw4JxiD6DO

 

is the extension...a pump?

 

Thanks so much for the assistance with the mark as they are definitely not my forte!!

I knew it had to open in some way. Thanks for finding an excellent example!!

 

I guess is wasn't as similar as I had thought! https://www.ebay.com/itm/4039484035...DKifMl8d0mQ+HFHX0wlCCtNXtH0=|tkp:BFBMis731u5h

 

That's a gizmo if I have ever seen one!!