Perfume Bottles

SPECIALTY PERFUME BOTTLES 315.5” boule atomizer in multicolor glass,mount signed Marcel Franck and BreveteSGDG $75-100DeVilbiss was established in Toledo,Ohio in the early 1900s. The company wasthe leading American manufacturer ofatomizers. It purchased the glass bottlesfrom leading glasshouses such as Steuben,Durand, Daum, Imperial and others andmounted its own hardware, hoses andrubber bulbs. Even the Lenox ChinaCompany made at least two bottles forDeVilbiss, a comical penguin-shaped bottleand a two-piece circular bottle with theatomizer mounted in the lower half. Thehand-crocheted bulb covers were, I am told,made in a “cottage industry” fashion byOhio housewives working at home. Thegreat years for DeVilbiss were the 1920sand 1930s. The company also made dressersets including powder jars, trays andperfume bottles with long glass daubers.World War II and changing tastes led tosimpler shapes with less hand decoration.The company discontinued atomizerproduction in 1969. Most DeVilbissproduction was signed in gold or engraved“DeV” without any signature of theglassmaker.4.2” DeVilbiss pink enameled dauber bottlewith gold trim, unsigned, $705” DeVilbiss violet glass atomizer with goldplated mount with a faux jewel finial, signedDeVilbiss c1930s $90Etling (1909-1939) was a Frenchcompany that sold French cameo glassatomizers and perfume bottles signed“Richard” at its Paris shop. It alsocontracted with another establishedglassmaker, probably Loetz of Austria. Itdid not make glass perfume bottlesthemselves.