Victorian smelling salts bottle
The small cut-glass bottle with a silver lid for smelling salts.
Smelling salts are ammonium carbonate scented with essential oils, inhaled against faintness and fainting. The bottles became little jewels, often with a lid of silver and cut glass.
Victorian ladies carried the bottles on a chain or in a small handbag, together with a fan and a handkerchief.
Materials: Cut glass, silver or gilt metal, sponge soaked in ammonia
Manufacture: Made in England for ladies to keep in a bag or on a chain.
The faceted cut glass.
The hinged silver lid.
The small inner stopper.