![]() The car bottles were made in a variety of attractive colors, including sapphire blue, rich emerald green, light golden amber (“topaz”), yellow, gray/smoke, etc. Other bottles often collected along with the cars include boats, ships, train engines and other vehicles. Most of the car bottles date from around 1968 and throughout the 1970s. It is likely that the most popular series within the sphere of Avon figural bottles would be their line of glass automobiles, including representations of early classic vehicles as well as various “race car” models. Sometimes the plastic lid is in a contrasting, or complementary color. In many cases, the lid is an integral part of the design/shape of a bottle, often made of plastic, with the color of the plastic being a close approximation of the glass color of the bottle itself. Some of the more popular shapes include figures of people, many types of animals including ducks, eagles, a buffalo, moose, hippo, etc cars, books, clocks, shoes, guns, cannons, horns, telephones, a hammer, bells, a steamboat, keys, steins, pipes, a tennis racket, an Indian chief, and many other designs. Some of the bottles held other cosmetic products including bath oils, lotions, etc. These bottles are often termed, and were sold by Avon as “decanters”. Most of the figurals can be generally grouped as having been made to contain either women’s perfume, or men’s cologne or aftershave. One of the first types was made in the shape of a boot. bottles made after the form of some type of object), these being produced in a very wide variety of shapes. In 1965 Avon began promoting the sale of figural bottles (i.e. ![]() In about 1938 he changed the company name again to Avon Products, Inc. One of his most popular fragrances was named “Avon” introduced circa 1929, and, perhaps in part because of the strong popularity of that perfume, customers began asking for his line of products under the name “Avon”. In 1930 the company was renamed Allied Products. Sales rapidly increased, and a new plant was eventually built in Suffern, New York circa 1894. McConnell hired women (including many who were housewives) to sell his perfumes door to door. His business was originally based in New York City. Soon, however, interest in the perfumes outpaced that of his books, and eventually McConnell began to manufacture perfumes and sell them under the firm name California Perfume Company ( 1892 ). McConnell, a book salesman, began giving away small vials of perfume to customers in an attempt to increase interest and sales of his books. VINTAGE GLASS AVON BOTTLES CALIFORNIA PERFUME COMPANYĪVON‘s beginnings date back to 1886 when David H.
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