Perfume Collection
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Germany is known for these delicately blown perfume vials. They usually had brass caps over long glass daubers and the color scheme was often orange, blue and white. Sometimes they took on shapes of animals.
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This Bimini Art Glass Bird Perfume was also used for liquor. It is 4" long and 1 3/4" tall. It is a nice "go with" for the German works at left.
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Dime Store novelties were produced in the 1920's and 1930's. These very delicate blown glass items, black baby, cat, frog and clown have surprisingly survived all these years. The charming googly-eyed perfume bottle has Germany painted on the bottom.
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| Lalique and some Czechoslovakian glass bottles are wonderful for their frosted satiny finishes that are juxtapositioned to highly polished glass. | I have always loved the double scent bottles with snap closure for smelling salts on one end and vinaigrette on the other. The ruby glass one folds in the center to take on the look of opera glasses. | ||
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| I would love to know more about these three miniature bottles and are there any more like these out there? | This sterling corn motif bottle I have always loved - maybe because I live in corn country. | I am always on the lookout for more of these small faience scent or snuff bottles. |
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| American glass from the Brilliant Period is particularly loved by me. | Shown here is a guilloche' enameled pushbutton applicator perfume bottle with delicate hand painted roses on a sterling silver base. | From Germany come these blown striped and plain colored mercury glass bottles. The bead like stoppers have long daubers also made of mercury glass. |
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| These cute critters are known as crowntops. They come in many novelty shapes and can be very expensive because they are highly prized by collectors and difficult to find. | Bottles with finger rings were popular in the nineteenth century. This one was made in France and has gilded brass metal work with the symbol of France, the fleur de lys, done in white enamel over a lilac glass bottle. | I love the very small Czechoslovakian perfumes. The smallest one here measures only 1" high. |
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| These are rare free blown seahorse scents with applied tooled rigaree. All date from the late 1700's. These were called dolphin pungents in the original Sandwich catalog from the 1830's. | These two perfumes I bought from another lady's web site. I fell in love with them even though they were without their sterling caps. I put the stoppers in until I find lids to fit them. The one laying down is horn-shaped and both were made in the late 1800's. | Although inexpensive, these hand painted perfumes will always be favorites. |
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