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Eleanor Penner's Vanity Showing Perfume Bottles c1938
This photograph shows a vanity designed by Paul T. Frankl, who furnished the Los Angeles home of comedian and radio personality Joe Penner and his wife Eleanor in 1938. Photo and information from http://tinselcreation.com/2013/11/
The perfumes I can readily identify are:
- Vol de Nuit by Guerlain c1933
- Fleurs de Rocaille by Caron c1934
- Unidentified Coty bottle
- Pois de Senteur de Chez Moi by Caron c1927
- Blue Grass by Elizabeth Arden c1934
- Bellodgia by Caron c1927
- Cassandra by Weil c1936
- Shanghai by Lentheric c1934
- Shalimar by Guerlain c1925
- Toujours Fidele by D'Orsay c1912
- Risque Tout by Lentheric c1935
- Indiscret by Lucien Lelong c1935
- Tabac Blond by Caron c1919
- Vega by Guerlain c1936
- Sous le Vent by Guerlain c1933
- Liu by Guerlain c1929
- My Sin by Lanvin c1924
- Several unidentified bottles
Plus some Czech cut crystal bottles scattered around the vanity.
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