A bottle with strange contents

[alpinecottage]

I wonder if the 32 glass marbles are the marbles from a peg solitaire game - the game where you have holes in the shape of a cross and have to jump one over the other to leave just one peg in the central hole.  The English version of the game has 32 pegs.

[weste]

Must admit I can't see any bottles  with beads on ebay or elsewhere. What intrigues me is the amount and the fact one's bigger. Although as was suggested would n't need as much perfume. Could it be something which can decant into something even smaller? They do look as they belong but could be a red herring. We'll probably kick ourselves when we find out!

[youngtug]

As others have already said, they may not belong to the bottle, if  not it is leading everyone astray. It makes a very secure container for something that would be easy to lose if left laying around loose.

[Maggie.]

I don't think that they are a match, the original "scent" bottle looks to have an enameled top and the cutting of the glass is a different pattern, it also looks to be finer.

OK, not a match. They were given to me as a pair. I wouldn't say that one is finer than the other though, quality-wise they seem the same.

[youngtug]

I don't think that they are a match, the original "scent" bottle looks to have an enameled top and the cutting of the glass is a different pattern, it also looks to be finer.

OK, not a match. They were given to me as a pair. I wouldn't say that one is finer than the other though, quality-wise they seem the same.

Sorry, I meant the glass cutting, not so deep and bold

[Maggie.]

I wonder if the 32 glass marbles are the marbles from a peg solitaire game - the game where you have holes in the shape of a cross and have to jump one over the other to leave just one peg in the central hole.  The English version of the game has 32 pegs.

They are very tiny - only 5mm diameter so very fiddly to use to play solitaire. Also there is the one larger one, which is 10mm.

As I mentioned the balls have always been in the bottle as far as I have known, but they could well have a separate purpose.

[Maggie.]

The glass cutting on the bottle is certainly more delicate and in panels alternating with uncut glass.

[Treetotal]

I think the scent bottle is much earlier and may have belonged to her mother.
Carol

[Gardener]

Here is one with glass balls in it too  http://www.rootschat.com/links/0tma/

And here  http://www.rootschat.com/links/0tmb/  is a recipe for smelling salts where it says the bottle could be filled with various things, including glass beads, so as to reduce spillage problems (if you click on the text it expands so you can scroll up and down).