Antique Perfume Bottle – Starting Your Collection
Linda
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Collecting antique perfume bottles is not only a fun hobby but can be a very rewarding one too. Antique items can be beautiful and so to can antique perfume bottles. There are some things to know, that can help you when trying to look for an antique perfume bottle to start your collection or want to add to your collection. If you already have a vintage perfume bottle then you may want to know how to estimate its value, or even decide if this is something you want to pursue.
Rare Colors In Perfume Bottles
When you are looking for rare antique perfume bottles or want to determine if an antique perfume bottle is rare, a good indicator is color. The color of your antique perfume bottle or one you would like to buy will help you determine if its a rare gem or something that nearly everyone has tucked away in their attic.
Opaque bottles are generally quite rare, some of the most rare perfume bottles are opaque blue and red. Another very rare color is ivory, not very commonly seen but very valuable. Brown, turquoise, and teal are also rare colors in the world of antique perfume bottles.
Opaque black is another unusual color, although not the rarest it is still a rare color and worth adding to a collection. It’s also a great starting point of a new collection. Opaque green is another color that you should be on the look out for. It falls in the same category as opaque black and can be much desired by some collectors.
Yellow, purple, and amber are not as rare as the opaque blacks and greens but are still rare colors. These are probably the kind of colors you would imagine an antique perfume bottle to come in. There are plenty of pictures of perfume bottles that come in these colors from old magazines and stills of old movies.
Clear bottles are the most common when it comes to antique bottles. Although clear bottles are not rare there might be other details that might make a clear bottle special or rare. The shape or decorative embellishments might make a clear bottle more valuable than a bottle in a rare color.
Hopefully this will help you in determining what to collect. You can collect bottles of your favorite color if you don’t intend to collect based on their value. Whatever you collect it is usually because you are interested or drawn to a feature or look, so collect the antique perfume bottles that you like if the money side of them does not interest you.
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