Three Antique Milk Glass Barber Bottles. Two with embossed Floral and Filligree and one smooth. Tallest 10 1/2" with stopper. Weight on all is 4 pds. PROVENANCE: A Private Charleston SC Estate. From about circa 1870 to 1920, barbers typically filled their own bottles or customers bottles with hair tonic, hair oil, bay rum, shampoo and rosewater. Many were personalized with customers names on them, something you would not see in other types of bottles. The bottles came in distinctive colors and shapes so the barber could identify what was in each bottle. Many of them were highly decorative. These bottles stopped being made after the 1906 Pure Food and Drug Act made it illegal to refill non-labeled bottles. Ref: Barber Bottles, Beauty in Glass by Steve Charing

replaced stopper and minor nicks to shortest one lip