What is a silver-topped scent bottle?

It's a bottle of glass, porcelain, tortoiseshell or another material with a silver cap, collar or hinged lid. The silver tops were made to hold volatile perfume in. Half the listings on Sellingantiques name glass as the body, and a quarter use the word "mounted". All-silver bottles are the smaller group.

Which period do most of them come from?

Victorian, by a clear margin. It leads the dealer date field with 362 entries, ahead of Edwardian and the 1920s. Decade tags run from the 1870s through to the 1930s, and the recorded dates stretch from 1800 to 1960. Only a portion of listings carry a clean year at all, so many read "circa 1890" instead.

Are coloured glass bottles common?

Colour is the single most-recorded feature after the silver. Cranberry appears in 48 titles, blue in 59, green in 52, amethyst in 32. Ruby, amber, opaline and turquoise follow. Coloured and overlay glass sits above plain cut clear glass in the range.

What does guilloche enamel mean on a scent bottle?

Translucent enamel over an engine-turned silver ground. The machine-cut pattern shows through the enamel as a rippled sheen. Fifty-two titles use the term, and they cluster in Edwardian, 1920s and 1930s dates rather than Victorian ones. They sit in the upper half of the range.

Which assay office appears most often?

Birmingham. It's named in 158 titles against 65 for London, so more than two to one. Chester and Sheffield turn up only in scattered examples.

Do novelty shapes come up often?

Once in a blue moon. An articulated fish vinaigrette, an owl, a snake, a paint tube, a mandolin, a violin, a hunting horn, a pea pod and a moon flask each appear only once or twice across the whole archive. When they do appear, they go straight to the top of the range. Around 110 scent bottles are listed a year on Sellingantiques, handled by 66 different dealers.

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Antique Silver Scent Bottles

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A small bottle for carrying perfume, with silver as the whole body or, more often, as the collar, cap or hinged top on glass, porcelain or shell.

Antique Silver Perfume Scent Bottle - Kate Greenaway

19th century

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Antique Silver Perfume Scent Bottle - Kate Greenaway

From The Silver Cabinet

£450

3+ MONTHS AGO

silver

1900 - 1920

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Quality Pair of Antique Edwardian Silver Collar & Cut Glass Scent Bottles

From Unique Antiques by Emma Jade

£245

3+ MONTHS AGO

silver

19th century

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Victorian Silver Scent Bottle Birmingham 1888

From Aramis Antiques

£195

3+ MONTHS AGO

silver

Delightful Victorian Bohemian Overlay Green Glass Scent Bottle, Circa 1890

19th century

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Delightful Victorian Bohemian Overlay Green Glass Scent Bottle, Circa 1890

From Julie Cartwright Antiques

£275

3+ MONTHS AGO

silver

19th century

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Pair Silver-mounted Glass Perfume Bottles.

From George James Antiques

£165

3+ MONTHS AGO

silver

Delightful Victorian Bohemian Overlay Cranberry Glass Scent Bottle, Circa 1890

19th century

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Delightful Victorian Bohemian Overlay Cranberry Glass Scent Bottle, Circa 1890

From Julie Cartwright Antiques

£275

3+ MONTHS AGO

silver

1900 - 1920

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Edwardian Silver Mounted Scent Perfume Bottle Birmingham 1915

From Aramis Antiques

£185

3+ MONTHS AGO

silver

1900 - 1920

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Silver Cased Scent Bottle

From Christopher Buck Antiques Ltd.

£395

3+ MONTHS AGO

silver

19th century

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Victorian Silver Cranberry Glass Scent Perfume Bottle Birmingham 1892

From Aramis Antiques

£220

3+ MONTHS AGO

silver

1900 - 1920

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Ladies Silver Scent Bottle. Complete. London.

From Carse Antiques

£145

3+ MONTHS AGO

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Birmingham is the assay office named most often in Sellingantiques titles for these bottles, at a hundred and fifty-eight against sixty-five for London.

1900 - 1920

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George V Silver and Glass Scent Bottle London 1911

From Aramis Antiques

£185

3+ MONTHS AGO

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19th century

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Rare Silver Lockable Gentleman's Cologne Bottle

From Terrier Antiques at Hebden Bridge

£229

3+ MONTHS AGO

silver

1900 - 1920

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Glass & Silver Enamel Topped Scent Bottle

From Hobson May Collection

£395

3+ MONTHS AGO

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Victorian Sampson Mordan Double End Perfume Bottle

19th century

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Victorian Sampson Mordan Double End Perfume Bottle

From TJR Trading

£280

3+ MONTHS AGO

silver

19th century

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Silver Topped Miniature Champagne / Liquor Bottle - 1898

From Puckerings

£475

3+ MONTHS AGO

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S. Morden&co London 19 Century Scent Bottle

19th century

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S. Morden&co London 19 Century Scent Bottle

From Devonshire Antiques

£650

3+ MONTHS AGO

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Antique Silver Scent Bottles

Antique Silver Perfume Scent Bottle - Kate Greenaway

Quality Pair of Antique Edwardian Silver Collar & Cut Glass Scent Bottles

Victorian Silver Scent Bottle Birmingham 1888

Delightful Victorian Bohemian Overlay Green Glass Scent Bottle, Circa 1890

Pair Silver-mounted Glass Perfume Bottles.

Delightful Victorian Bohemian Overlay Cranberry Glass Scent Bottle, Circa 1890

Edwardian Silver Mounted Scent Perfume Bottle Birmingham 1915

Silver Cased Scent Bottle

Victorian Silver Cranberry Glass Scent Perfume Bottle Birmingham 1892

Ladies Silver Scent Bottle. Complete. London.

George V Silver and Glass Scent Bottle London 1911

Rare Silver Lockable Gentleman's Cologne Bottle

Glass & Silver Enamel Topped Scent Bottle

Victorian Sampson Mordan Double End Perfume Bottle

Silver Topped Miniature Champagne / Liquor Bottle - 1898

S. Morden&co London 19 Century Scent Bottle

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