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Showing posts with label antique. Show all posts
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Thursday, April 16, 2015
Saturday, December 6, 2014
Aluminum Perfume Bottles c1896
Aluminum perfume bottles and powder puff boxes shown in an antique Victorian 1896 Busiest House In America publication.
You may think that aluminum was an unusual metal to make perfume bottles from, but, at one time, the metal was highly prized. In the mid 1880s, aluminum metal was exceedingly difficult to produce, which made pure aluminum more valuable than gold. So celebrated was the metal that bars of aluminum were exhibited at the Exposition Universelle of 1855. Napoleon III of France is reputed to held a banquet where the most honored guests were given aluminum utensils, while the others made do with gold. But by 1895, a new process was developed to produce aluminum more inexpensively and soon it became a more common metal used for the making of a variety of household goods, including vanity items.
Aluminum was touted as untarnishable.
You may think that aluminum was an unusual metal to make perfume bottles from, but, at one time, the metal was highly prized. In the mid 1880s, aluminum metal was exceedingly difficult to produce, which made pure aluminum more valuable than gold. So celebrated was the metal that bars of aluminum were exhibited at the Exposition Universelle of 1855. Napoleon III of France is reputed to held a banquet where the most honored guests were given aluminum utensils, while the others made do with gold. But by 1895, a new process was developed to produce aluminum more inexpensively and soon it became a more common metal used for the making of a variety of household goods, including vanity items.
Aluminum was touted as untarnishable.
Thursday, November 20, 2014
Sunday, October 5, 2014
Vintage Apollo Studios Ormolu Vanity Accessories and Perfume Bottles 1934 Advertisement
Vintage Apollo Studios Ormolu Vanity Accessories and Perfume Bottles from a 1934 L & C Mayers Co publication. Items shown as filigree metal trays, candy dishes and perfume bottles. Two of the trays have lace sandwiched between glass. The candy dishes have glass inserts with three compartments and sometimes I see these listed as powder jars and jewel caskets. The perfume bottles were made by Heisey (Crystolite) and rest inside French style metal mountings. One of them has a handpainted miniature painting on ivory.
Similar Apollo pieces from the same time period:
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Saturday, October 4, 2014
Quadruple Plate Perfume Bottles & Puff Boxes Victorian Catalog Advertisements
Here is a bevy of antique quadruple silver plate vanity accessories including perfume and cologne bottles, atomizers, puff boxes and more. Some of these were by the Wilcox Silverplate Co.; Middletown Silver Co.; Pairpoint; and the Meriden Silver Plate Co.
Advertisements are taken from Victorian era catalogs from:
- The Busiest House in America (Lapp and Flershem, Chicago).
COLOGNE & BARBER BOTTLES:
PERFUME ATOMIZERS:
The atomizers below were made by a variety of silverplate manufacturers including Pairpoint Mfg Co.BOTTLES & OTHER ITEMS:
Crown Perfumery Lavender Smelling Salts Bottle with Silverplate Holder, shown below
Crown Perfumery Lavender Smelling Salts Bottle with Silverplate Holder, shown below
Roger et Gallet Johann Marie farina Cologne with Silverplate Holder, shown below.
PUFF (POWDER) BOXES:
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This is not your average perfume blog. In each post, I present perfumes or companies as encyclopedic entries with as much facts and photos as I can add for easy reading and researching without all the extraneous fluff or puffery.
One of the goals of this website is to show the present owners of the various perfumes and cologne brands that are featured here how much we miss the discontinued classics and hopefully, if they see that there is enough interest and demand, they will bring back these fragrances!
Please leave a comment below (for example: of why you liked the fragrance, describe the scent, time period or age you wore it, who gave it to you or what occasion, any specific memories, what it reminded you of, maybe a relative wore it, or you remembered seeing the bottle on their vanity table, did you like the bottle design), who knows, perhaps someone from the company brand might see it.
Please understand that this website is not affiliated with any of the perfume companies written about here, it is only a source of reference. I consider it a repository of vital information for collectors and those who have enjoyed the classic fragrances of days gone by. Updates to posts are conducted whenever I find new information to add or to correct any errors.
One of the goals of this website is to show the present owners of the various perfumes and cologne brands that are featured here how much we miss the discontinued classics and hopefully, if they see that there is enough interest and demand, they will bring back these fragrances!
Please leave a comment below (for example: of why you liked the fragrance, describe the scent, time period or age you wore it, who gave it to you or what occasion, any specific memories, what it reminded you of, maybe a relative wore it, or you remembered seeing the bottle on their vanity table, did you like the bottle design), who knows, perhaps someone from the company brand might see it.
Also, if you have any information not seen here, please comment and share with all of us.
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