19th C. Murray &. Lanman Florida Water Bottle with Original Silver Painted Neck vintage Penobscot basket and must say that when

and must say that when I received it it was quite dusty

perhaps closing up a third hole (

and all sorts of other things

so seems small even for a baby shoe

which I'd guess were likely the dates of birth of the three children of the woman who owned this

19th C. Murray &. Lanman Florida Water Bottle with Original Silver Painted Neck vintage Penobscot basket and must say that whenI just though this was a great looking bottle, for its pale aqua color and proportions and embossed text but especially for its silvery neck, which, from what I've found, was a type of paint used on early versions of this bottle, and which it is pretty rare to find example. Florida Water, developed in the 1830s or so, was a commercially prepared water blending floral essential oils in a water alcohol base, with its name referring to the fabled