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very nice, good to know it is a perfume holder, (otherwise I would have taken it for a delicate form of telsum). Like this!
A gorgeous piece, Ingrid. And again: a novelty for me.
I wonder how it was used, though. Would you stuff the leaves etc. through the filigree work, or can it be opened?
Thank you Betty, yes the leaves were to be stuffed through, as the leaves would be fresh and perhaps rolled in the hand it will soften even more and easily pushed through the opening. Once inside it will dry up and acts as a pompadour. And of course if a piece of cloth drenched in parfum it is n problem.
Although I do not think it was parfum. Because in the olden days they used a lot more natural items. I remember also that at the time I lived in England (for my husband's studies, I met up with Sudanees ladies and they did have the heavy parfum smell and it turned out to be sandal wood parfum which they loved, I never had smelled anything like it either in Ethiopia or Eritrea. So I stick with the leaves.
You now , you must know these scene, many people, men and women when they do have a cold are walking around with eucaluptus leaves in their nose holes. Quite funny for the first time, but I myself used these leaves, boiling them and than steam yourself or put the boiling water near the bed to sleep with this mental smell. Gr. Ingrid.