Mary''s other clothes ?

[Gene C]

Until someone shows me some 19th-century references to use of tear bottles, such as being mentioned in advertisements for mourning goods or in letters and diaries, or shown in illustrations, I'm going to have to remain a skeptic. The only Victorian references I've ever seen are to the tear bottles supposedly used in ancient Egypt. Someone else did a search and came up with only these results:

http://hauntedohiobooks.com/news/13531/

Tear bottles or tear catchers were mentioned two years ago on the thread "Skull of Civil War Soldier to be Auctioned", post #8 and #10.
http://rogerjnorton.com/LincolnDiscussio...-1723.html

Interesting...