Looking For Antique perfume and scent bottles
Antique perfume and scent bottles
Buying and selling perfume bottles can be very lucrative if you do the car boot rounds, or visit local auction houses, especially the lesses known country auctions. For just a few pounds risked you could end up with a highly desirable and collectable perfume bottle. Get to know the more desirable bottles by finding on eBay the perfume or scent bottles, that attract the highest bids and most bids, look at the names and the materials, plus the shapes.
When at auctions or flea markets look out for job lots, or boxes that have a mixture of objects including scent bottles, you could be lucky and find a hidden fine example.
Originally scent or perfume was bought in plain bottles and it was not untill the 19th century that prefilled designed scent bottles came onto the market.
Early examples of scent bottles can fetch some very impressive prices, especially rare shapes, intricate designs and famous brand names, some examples are:
Antique Double Ended
Bacarrat Lubin Perfume bottle
Latticino Silver Scent bottles
Antique English Mother of Pearl Perfume Bottle
Bohemian Scent bottles
Samson Morden Scent bottles
Antique CHATELAINE Gilt & Enamel Perfume Scent Bottle
Wiener Werkstatte cut glass scent bottles
Lalique glass
Moehr of Monte Carlo
Christian Dior
Guerlain
Estee Lauder
Avon
