Perfume Bottles

AMERICAN 20TH CENTURY GLASS 13H. C. Fry Glass Company, founded in1900, produced perfume bottles in a colorcalled Foval, an opaline glass. It was alsonoted for its Late Brilliant Period Lily of theValley pattern.Libbey Glass Company (formerly theNew England Glass Company) of Toledo,Ohio, kept up with the changing taste ofAmericans by converting from elaboratelycut crystal of the Brilliant Period toespecially fine cut and etched glasswareduring the Depression.Elegant Glass of the Depression EraThis is the name used to differentiatethe blown or mold blown glass, oftenengraved or etched, from the inexpensivepressed glassware made during the sameperiod. Generally, colored bottles are morecostly than clear. Most of the well knownmanufacturers of the time were located inthe Ohio Valley.Heisey Glassworks was founded in1895 in Newark, Ohio. The company madeboth decorative and commercial perfumebottles for several perfumers. Their bottlesare often marked with an elongateddiamond, with or without an “H.”Pair of iridescent pale lavender footed perfumesby Heisey, ca. 1930-45, marked withdiamond H, pair, $250Tiffin Glass Company of Tiffin, Ohiomade elegant etched glass perfume bottlesduring the 1920s and later. Its most popularcolors were clear and black satin glass.Cambridge (1901-1954) was knownfor its high quality blown bottles. Whenmarked, the logo is a C within a diamond.Fostoria was founded 1887 in Ohio,moved to West Virginia in 1891, and closedin 1986. It made bottles for DeVilbissatomizer mounts, combination perfumebottles set on powder jars, and elegant golddecorated colognes and perfumes during theperiod from 1910 to 1950.Gunderson-Pairpoint (1939-56)produced a wide range of distinctive handblown scent bottles, some in thepaperweight style and often with very largefloriform stoppers. During the 1940s and50s, the Gunderson Pairpoint Companyproduced a version of Peach Blow, shadingfrom pink to white in both glossy and mattfinish. Later, pieces in the Peach Blow stylewere made by several United Statescompanies, making dating and attributionsomewhat problematical.Consolidated Glass Companyintroduced its unique Ruba Rombic line in1928. The pieces featured multiangular,cubist rhomboid shapes typical of Art Decodesigns popular at that time. Perfume bottlesare extremely rare.Fenton Art Glass Company (1905-present) was influenced by the fineiridescent colors of Steuben and Tiffany.Fenton introduced its inexpensive pressedversion of this style of glass in 1907. Todaythis is called Carnival Glass. Within a shorttime other American glass factories werealso making their version of Carnival glass.Fenton has produced a wide range of scentand perfume bottles during its long history.During the 1930s it also made opalescenthobnail perfume bottles for the WrisleyCompany of Chicago to use for theircommercial 1930s.