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Thursday, December 24, 2020

Antique Venetian Foiled and Aventurine Glass Scent Bottles

In this guide I will introduce you to the world of Venetian foiled and aventurine glass scent bottles. These spangled works of art were produced in Venice and were mainly manufactured for the tourist market during the mid 19th century.

Scent Bottles: Opaline Glass

During the Second Empire, glass manufacturers in France produced scent bottles in opaline, an opaque or slightly translucent glass that can appear either white or brightly colored in shades of apple green, turquoise blue, rose pink, jet black, soft lavender and sunny yellow. Opaline glass is opacified to a translucent or opalescent state by the addition of tin oxide or ashes of calcified bone. It is not to be confused with common milk glass. Real opaline glass has a "fiery sunset glow" when held to the light, indicative of older glass pieces.

Silver Mounted Perfume Atomizers and Scent Bottles c1913 Advertisement

Cut glass and sterling silver mounted perfume atomizers and scent bottles shown in an advertisement from a 1913 William Whiteley, Ltd. catalog. Also shown are silver mounted smelling salts bottle and eau de cologne cases. The perfume atomizers are called "scent sprays" in this catalog page.

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

Roger et Gallet Johann Marie farina Cologne with Silverplate Holder, shown below.

PUFF (POWDER) BOXES:

Welcome!

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.

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!

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