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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Nathan Lindop, post: 344831, member: 5285&quot;]This is my small collection of smelling salts bottles I’ve collected. Technically I haven’t meant to amass these, just through coincidence, but now I have them I’m so glad I did. And I’m definately in for carrying it on <img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/wink.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=";)" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>The first one I bought was in a group of bottles I bought on eBay, I was obsessed with how amazing I thought it was, researching on and off to find out about it. Little found haha.</p><p>Then through buying bottles occasionally I found random bottles here and there. The two with semi-intact labels I bought thinking they were plain in a box of bottles, major surprise when they were in this condition.</p><p><br /></p><p>In order in the top photo they are :</p><p>1) Unkmarked, unnamed, stopper matches my brass sleeved bottle, clover leaf style possibly a common maker but almost certain this was an optional motif and easy to manufacture for companies.</p><p>2) The smaller version of the smelling salts bottles made by Crown Perfumery co. London with iconic crown stopper, intact collar label (tears and missing left edge, torn) and frontal label (“Invigorating Lavender Salts”) and also a diamond-shaped guarantee label. I will attach a picture of what the original bottle would have looked like in immaculate condition.</p><p>3) “Mackenzie Catarrh Cure Smelling Bottle”is written on the base. Mackenzie were a very popular brand of salts after Crown Perfumery. This bottle has the more iconically tradition globular stopper characteristic of basic smelling salts bottles.</p><p>4) The larger Crown Perfumery bottle with iconic crown stopper. There are number markings on the base probably related to the bottle production that I have yet to research.</p><p>5) The bottle is identical to that above but is coupled with a smelling salts solid silver bottle sleeve (1908, Chester, Henry Matthews). The sleeve is marvellously minimalist compared to other sleeves with bow ribbon motifs all around. The bottle was matched with the sleeve by me, not an original coupling. I’m fairly pedantic about originality so I needed to mention it haha.</p><p>6)Differs from the above two bottles only in that there are no extensive markings on the base it is plain, the guarantee label you can see in the picture is identical to the label in the smaller bottle (2). There is a small scrap of the collar label on, pray that I never knock it off by accident one day.</p><p>7) unmarked globular salts bottle, distinctly darker glass than other bottles I have seen. Solid silver rococo bottle sleeve (1903, Birmingham). As with most silver the rococo pattern is intertwined with flowers and a small blank cartouche is also present. The silver case is damaged with section that have broken off towards the top of the case.</p><p>8)I don’t know the maker of this bottle. I have seen it called a crown perfumery bottle by someone but I think that was an optimistic sales technique, not accurate. The bottle is unremarkable and smaller than standard salts bottles of this shape, the stopper is in the form of a plume of regal feathers. I have an extra stopper in this motif also pictured.</p><p>9) In a picture at the bottom of this thread. Also has the clover leaf stopper, the bottle has the same dimensions as the larger crown perfumery bottles. The brass sleeve has a registered design number dating it to 1903 (courtesy of [USER=59]@Bakersgma[/USER]) First bottle I bought and quite possibly my favourite.</p><p><br /></p><p>Hope you enjoy them as much as I do. Also hope this thread helps bulk up google image searches for anyone looking for smelling salts bottles as I have been. Thanks <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie76" alt=":pompous:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie25" alt=":bookworm:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]116361[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]116362[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]116363[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]116364[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]116365[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]116366[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]116376[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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