19th C. Murray &. Lanman Florida Water Bottle with Original Silver Painted Neck egg shaped box With a commanding presence

With a commanding presence

who I'm very sad seems never to have chosen one to give back to our Emily

Loss to the paddle as evident

and also a 19th century tradition of carving and painting vertebrae to resemble John Wesley (1703-1791)

19th C. Murray &. Lanman Florida Water Bottle with Original Silver Painted Neck egg shaped box With a commanding presenceI 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