Ambre de Delhi by Babani c1921

Ambre de Delhi by Babani: launched in 1921. Subtitled the "Breath of Love" and Parfum de Hindou. It was designed to be used to perfume furs as well as cigarettes, and to be used in perfume lamps. It was also available in a face powder.

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.

Le Golliwogg by Vigny c1918

Le Golliwogg by Vigny: launched in 1918.

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:

Bohemian Glass Shaker Top Perfume Bottles 1901 Advertisement

Bohemian colored glass perfume bottles with shaker tops from an antique Victorian/Edwardian 1901-02 A. C. McClurg & Co. publication. Many of the bottles are gilded and the designs are reminiscent of Moser. It appears that the shaker tops are the open rose and the "loving cup" styles.

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: