Agreed, outrageous is the word. The internet is no place to buy something like this. I'd suggest raiding every local antique store for any vintage razors, aftershaves or retired bottles. I got mine for $3.
Decanted some Pinaud clubman today!
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Agreed, outrageous is the word. The internet is no place to buy something like this. I'd suggest raiding every local antique store for any vintage razors, aftershaves or retired bottles. I got mine for $3.
Those syringes are great for fountain pens, and I've also found other uses for them as well since buying them.
My goodness, I never thought out of the box enough lol. I have several of these. Thank you good sir!
Completely agree, very useful!!
I posted in an other thread, but didn't get much attention, so I'll ask here as well...
I came across the bottles below this weekend, which I'll be using to decant some AS.
Left to right
Pinaud bottle. I'll need to cork this one, and I'm not sure what's going in this one yet.
Royall Bay Rhum. This will house Bootlegger's bay rum, once I get it clean. However, cleaning this one has me scratching my head. I normally use alcohol and course salt to clean the inside of bottles, but I don't want to demolish the bay leaf. I also don't know how to remove the cork without ruining it, so I'm thinking I might need to replace the cork, which means I'll have to figure a way to retain the little crown topper. I WOULD LOVE ANY INPUT OR ADVICE if anyone can share your thoughts.
Lucky Tiger (for scalp eczema and dandruff). I've never tried Lucky Tiger AS but now that I have this bottle, I sort of feel like I HAVE to buy some and decant it. I'll just need to improvise a seal for under the cap because the original cork is toast. (more on this later.)
Pinaud Eau De Quinine. I want to decant Clubman into this bottle, but I don't want to remove the existing label.
On a scale of 1 - 10, how sacrilegious would it be to remove this label and stick on a Clubman label from a plastic bottle?
I would say a 10
Have you tried hitting up the antique stores in your area?
Oh boy. Ok that's what I was afraid of.
Tried posting the gif of the Office Space guy just saying "ooh yeah" but the whole quote played,. saying "I'm gonna have to disagree with you there".
Since I kinda do agree with you, I can't use the gif. oh well.
Anyway, thanks for the feedback!
Put the Clubman label on the opposite side? Nothing wrong with having two cool labels?
The other side has the raised flower basket design, and "Paris" on it.
Nah not much of an antique store hopper- I have small children
So I'm working on sort of restoring these bottles (or at least getting them back on the road again) and thought you folks might like to see.
Lucky Tiger
Before:
I stripped it down through a series of wire brushing and sanding/scraping. That cap is very thin, and was actually plated. Pretty sure it was brass or copper with nickel plating because there was green corrosion, and after sanding it smooth I found some areas that looked copper in color, and other areas that were silver in color.
I painted it black for now and added a seal from an empty Avon bottle. Now to pick up some Lucky Tiger and fill 'er up.
The Royall bottle is cool, it's a cork, but with a metal reducer fitted into the cork, and the small crown on top is actually a threaded cap.
Maybe this isn't news to anyone, but I didn't know how this was set up.
Royall Bay Rhum
Before:
I always forget to take before pictures, so I zoomed in on the pic I took when I got them home. This pic doesn't represent how nasty this thing was.
I removed the cork and reducer, and cleaned the bottle.
The bay leaf inside the bottle paid the ultimate price, and shattered when I tried to pull it out.
The cork itself disintegrated as well, but everything still smelled so great.
The bottle is nice and clean now, and I've been working the metal bits of the top with a toothbrush, qtips and alcohol, and a wire brush etc, and I've gotten it back to what you see below.
I plan to get a new cork and see if I can re-assemble this so it can go back into service in my den.
The metal is extremely soft. Does anyone know what it is? Pewter? Lead?
After:
Lucky Tiger
Before:
I stripped it down through a series of wire brushing and sanding/scraping. That cap is very thin, and was actually plated. Pretty sure it was brass or copper with nickel plating because there was green corrosion, and after sanding it smooth I found some areas that looked copper in color, and other areas that were silver in color.
I painted it black for now and added a seal from an empty Avon bottle. Now to pick up some Lucky Tiger and fill 'er up.
The Royall bottle is cool, it's a cork, but with a metal reducer fitted into the cork, and the small crown on top is actually a threaded cap.
Maybe this isn't news to anyone, but I didn't know how this was set up.
Royall Bay Rhum
Before:
I always forget to take before pictures, so I zoomed in on the pic I took when I got them home. This pic doesn't represent how nasty this thing was.
I removed the cork and reducer, and cleaned the bottle.
The bay leaf inside the bottle paid the ultimate price, and shattered when I tried to pull it out.
The cork itself disintegrated as well, but everything still smelled so great.
The bottle is nice and clean now, and I've been working the metal bits of the top with a toothbrush, qtips and alcohol, and a wire brush etc, and I've gotten it back to what you see below.
I plan to get a new cork and see if I can re-assemble this so it can go back into service in my den.
The metal is extremely soft. Does anyone know what it is? Pewter? Lead?
After:
Thank you I will do this. I'm guessing a small funnel would be handy?
