Would you pass the vinaigrette please
Not a salad dressing but a nosegay or pomander, behind the grill a small sponge was contained and soaked in fine perfume and oils. In the event of any mal-odour one, both men and woman, used them. One could open ones vinaigrette and inhale fine scent as opposed to smelly Georgian and Victorian streets.
As with vesta cases these more often or not tended to be silver but sometimes in bejewelled gold and decorative gold. Mostly pretty small. Often with finely decorated grills, the grill lifts on a hinge and the sponge is behind, for easy replenishing of the scent.
Lovely items to collect, the work in these is phenomenal, and often made by really good makers like Nathan Mills and others.
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