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spqrbluesUpdate: Mystery solved. The secret word is "Orrefors."
Update #2: The cat and I confessed, and it was all very Guy de Maupassant. Anyway, the bottle will be stored safely away with the other fragile inherited family items until its stopper arrives.
Sort of like this, but a lot prettier -->
I started the morning by accidentally smashing the stopper of an antique crystal perfume bottle belonging to my mother, out of my own complete stupidity (a cat is perfectly capable of jumping down from a high shelf full of glass objects on her own, she did not need my help). The perfume bottle was originally my mother's mother's or an older sister's, I'm not sure, but in any case, it's old, a heavy crystal that smashed quite thoroughly when it hit the tile floor slightly ahead of the cat, who easily glided over it. There are words in script engraved on the bottom--maybe Orne Jons or Orme Jones. I'm hoping to replace the stopper so I can hide my despicable crime, or maybe find another bottle just like it, but thegoogle isn't providing leads to any bottles that look like this one or a perfume manufacturer with a name like that. The person who can provide a definitive way to replace the bottle or the stopper with a match from the same company will receive in gratitude... umm, I don't have much to offer... the original 11x17 page of art for whenever I finally get this volcano exploded. But please don't tell my mother.
I'll repost this entry with an image of the bottle soon-ish. I just had to put the initial plea out there, or I'd completely snap from this additional straw of stress. I'd search the Manhattan antique mall and any shops that are open today, but I have to get to a convention for work (BEA--Book Expo America).
Something fragile and beautiful survives half a century or more, and I smash it in a second because I make the wrong choice (grab bottle or grab cat?). Also, I think I just took a bath in a tub full of tiny shards of crystal, because I'm bad at cleaning a crime scene, too, apparently.
Oh, yeah, also: the buttons arrived. The folks who made them do great work, but I should refine the designs. I'll post pictures of the pins soon, too.
Update #2: The cat and I confessed, and it was all very Guy de Maupassant. Anyway, the bottle will be stored safely away with the other fragile inherited family items until its stopper arrives.
Sort of like this, but a lot prettier -->I started the morning by accidentally smashing the stopper of an antique crystal perfume bottle belonging to my mother, out of my own complete stupidity (a cat is perfectly capable of jumping down from a high shelf full of glass objects on her own, she did not need my help). The perfume bottle was originally my mother's mother's or an older sister's, I'm not sure, but in any case, it's old, a heavy crystal that smashed quite thoroughly when it hit the tile floor slightly ahead of the cat, who easily glided over it. There are words in script engraved on the bottom--maybe Orne Jons or Orme Jones. I'm hoping to replace the stopper so I can hide my despicable crime, or maybe find another bottle just like it, but thegoogle isn't providing leads to any bottles that look like this one or a perfume manufacturer with a name like that. The person who can provide a definitive way to replace the bottle or the stopper with a match from the same company will receive in gratitude... umm, I don't have much to offer... the original 11x17 page of art for whenever I finally get this volcano exploded. But please don't tell my mother.
I'll repost this entry with an image of the bottle soon-ish. I just had to put the initial plea out there, or I'd completely snap from this additional straw of stress. I'd search the Manhattan antique mall and any shops that are open today, but I have to get to a convention for work (BEA--Book Expo America).
Something fragile and beautiful survives half a century or more, and I smash it in a second because I make the wrong choice (grab bottle or grab cat?). Also, I think I just took a bath in a tub full of tiny shards of crystal, because I'm bad at cleaning a crime scene, too, apparently.
Oh, yeah, also: the buttons arrived. The folks who made them do great work, but I should refine the designs. I'll post pictures of the pins soon, too.
No Joy in Herculaneum?
Date: 2009-06-17 01:53 pm (UTC)Re: No Joy in Herculaneum?
Date: 2009-06-22 02:19 am (UTC)Saw your Graphic Myths and Legends books displayed prominently in a Buns & Noodle (er, Barnes & Noble) in Charlotte, NC last weekend. Hope all is well.
Re: No Joy in Herculaneum?
Date: 2009-06-23 02:38 am (UTC)Re: No Joy in Herculaneum?
Date: 2009-06-22 08:06 am (UTC)...I was wondering if my kid would beat the "Boom" - and she did; she graduated. ^^ (A couple more months or so, and this comic will have been on the web longer than her High School career... :p)