Victorian “Tear Catchers” Story a Myth, But the Bottles Are Highly Collectible
WorthPoint
JUNE 27, 2025
In a 2017 article at Atlas Obscura , perfume historian Grace Elizabeth Hummel said the myth likely began with early scholars, who romantically labeled the small glass bottles that archaeologists often found in Greek and Roman tombs as lachrymatories or tear bottles, but chemical tests conducted by scientists disproved that theory.
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