Description:
Scent bottle or smelling salts bottle in a sea horse shape, made of blown colorless glass with opaque white glass threads, bottles with spiral tip and narrow hollow tube; object is decorated with small additional tooled decorations of glass on the sides, spout is cracked off of blowpipe and is rough and unfinished, painted "#103" on exterior of spout, white label on interior of spout from Winterthur reads: "Glass Room/#108/ Scent Bottle." An old note goes with the piece which reads: "The Sea horse scent bottle belonged to Louisa Kingsbury Day of Nantucket. Given me by Agnes Palmer Kingsbury. The original records show it was made at Sandwich Glass Works by a Wisterberg who was a friend of the Louisa Day family and worked at Sandwich for a short while. Russell W Nadeau."

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