Topic: Very large Irice perfume

[deco.queen]

Hi Everyone,
I found this today and I know very little about Irice.  I'm hoping you can tell me where it was made by the label that if left and maybe what year.  This piece is 10 3/4" to the top of the gold.  The petals are marked underneath with something I can't read and I included a picture of that mark.  Also, any ideas on the value? 
Thanks so much for looking.
Janice

[Frank]

Irice was a trademark of Wholesaler/Importer Irving W. Rice & Co., Inc., 15 West 34th St. NY. The text on the petal looks German but as I think it is abbreviation, not sure... I cannot make out some of the letters.

[deco.queen]

I'm not sure what those petals are made of but with the sun hitting the letters just right they look like:
Ges.Gesch.  I thought it may help identify the coutry.

[Frank]

Best I can come with is Gesellschaft geschieden, meaning company separated.  :huh: Perhaps a company that made parts for another... Pamela should be able to clarify.

One use I found in a glass company, Menzel Gebruder Bavaria, context (courtesy Glass-Study) was "Spezialitäten: Parfümflakons in kristallähnlicher Qualität, Flaschen für den engl. Markt und die Dominions, stets ges. gesch. Neuheiten in Flakons und Flaschen.:

They made pressed and hollow glass including this type of container particularly for the English Speaking market. Run by a Paul Menzel in 1925 but no trace on the web, but there is now a GERHARD MENZEL GLASBEARBEITUNGSWERK GMBH & CO. KG which may or may not be related.

However it is highly speculative to link this company to your piece just on the Ges. Gesch. mark, I mention it as they made this type of item and the context of the mark.

[deco.queen]

Someone has suggested the bottle was made in Portugal and like you said the flower made be from another part of the world!  Thank you for your remarks.

[Ivo]

Gesetzlich Geschützt, legally protected.

[deco.queen]

Thank you, Ivo!  That would be for the patent on the flower, great.  That mystery is solved.

[Frank]