(04-02-2018, 10:32 PM)Susan Higginbotham Wrote: "Tear bottles" are nothing more than perfume bottles. Some clever antique dealer got the notion of describing them as "tear bottles" in order to make them more marketable. Here's a good article that debunks the myth:
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/te...yth-bottle
"Tear bottles" and the equally fictitious story that the Victorians used posing stands to prop up corpses in order to make them look "lifelike" for photographs (they actually used the stands to help living people hold still) have pretty much taken over the Internet, unfortunately.
Susan, thank you for the post. The ones in the link you shared look very different from the ones I saw on a different site. Those were more colorful. Now that I know they are perfume bottles, I really want one! I collect perfume bottles.
Mary''s other clothes ?
