Since I'm collecting both Western and swirled bottles, I couldn't resist purchasing this one recently from Dr Barnes. Having an inquisitive mind, I just had to find out more about it. A little online research produced the following:
Langley's 1884 San Francisco directory listed Mme Delisdinere as a manufacturer of toilet articles at 26 Bay street.
The Annual State Agricultural Society Exhibition at the September 1880 California State Fair, held at the Capitol Park Pavilion in Sacramento, listed a special mention for the tooth powder and hair dressing exhibit by Madame Delisdinere of San Francisco.
Based on this limited info, what was within? Is it a hair bottle, complexion cream...??? It appears 1870's? The name is certainly a unique one, with only a handful of hits on Goggle Search. Anyone have any additional info?
Langley's 1884 San Francisco directory listed Mme Delisdinere as a manufacturer of toilet articles at 26 Bay street.
The Annual State Agricultural Society Exhibition at the September 1880 California State Fair, held at the Capitol Park Pavilion in Sacramento, listed a special mention for the tooth powder and hair dressing exhibit by Madame Delisdinere of San Francisco.
Based on this limited info, what was within? Is it a hair bottle, complexion cream...??? It appears 1870's? The name is certainly a unique one, with only a handful of hits on Goggle Search. Anyone have any additional info?
1870's for sure,wonsers in same hole.
ReplyDeleteAwesome Picture, I need to get some back lights like your using, what the heck are they? I am glad that bottle went to a good home. DB
ReplyDeleteNo, I don't believe this bottle to be '70s. I have dug several in SF and Oakland, all from mid to late '80s pits. Could be wrong, though, just an "edikated" guess.
ReplyDeleteNo listing in any SF directory prior to 1884. I checked then all, from 1864-1883.
yeah weird,I think mr anonymous was trying to make the carson boys jealous !
ReplyDeleteany killers coming out of SAC lately, did you guys get into that old town sac project that was all over the news a while ago ?
ReplyDeleteNot worth a tinker's damn. 6' dirt removed years ago for the PD garage. Not much left to see but the site was watched 24/7. Chuck went in a few times for naught.
ReplyDeleteBad lungs keep me off the dirt for the duration. Killer chemo making me a weak tit baby.
The other Old Town project will likely be a bummer, too. We wasted it way back in the '60s and early '70s. All that BS about it being untouched is exactly that.
there was a clear school house ink in the hole with the broken wonsers,but nothing else to date it so the amber wonsers could have been around awhile before thrown away .old bumstead
ReplyDeleteI bought my Mme Delisdinere from a dealer at the San Jose bottle show years ago. He said that 13 of them were dug in the one pit that the example I bought came from. Mine is light blue, unremarkably "litely"-swirled with applied lip. Think of the all the well-known face cream/complexion bottles from SF that come in shades of blue. Nettie, Wakelee's Cameline, Roses & Rosemary, Dickey Chemist, Prof. whatshisname hair bottle...the list goes on.
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