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Showing posts with label Vantine. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Vantine. Show all posts

Sunday, July 20, 2014

AA Vantine's History and Perfumes

In this guide I have listed the various perfumes presented by the company of Ashley Abraham Vantine Inc. of  West 39th Street New York City, with additional branches in Boston and Philadelphia.

Vantine's Oriental Store was a well known gift shop that specialized in imported wares "from the Empires of Japan, China, India, China, Persia and the East." It was founded in 1869 by Ashley Abraham Vantine in New York City, establishing one of the first stores to import Oriental goods.

In addition to Asian produced bronze items, many of their bronze incense burners were also imported from France. Vantine's supplied a touch of the exotic to Americans during the craze for all things Oriental.

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