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Glass Identification - Post here for all ID requests => Glass => Topic started by: Paul S. on June 21, 2016, 06:56:42 PM
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this is partly because I was practising with the camera, and not doing too well, and partly because I sent them an email about a week back, but no reply so far.......... perhaps it's the possibility of BREXIT that has made them go quiet ;)
Apparently crème de la crème in the world of perfumiers, they have a history going back a very long way, and wondered if this bottle might have been late C19 or, as is more likely, C20.
The stopper is pressed, then ground/polished to give flat sides, and it fits the bottle well. The relief decoration looks to represent an image of the Legion De Honour, but not too sure, and there are base marks which read.... 2770 DY. 5.75" (C. 146 mm) tall.
The slightly crude quality of the container appears a little at odds with an otherwise haute couture name.
Tried for ages to improve the picture, but this is about as good as it gets I'm afraid.
As I say, just wondered if this might have been eighteen something or nineteen something.
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Piver is not the ultimate in elegant luxury. They were the ones making colognes for the barber trade - the type the hairdresser o splashed on your hair before sending you forth. The scent was not unpleasant but you were glad it did not last. I think they went out of fashion - along with haircuts - in the seventies.
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thanks - that would account for the lesser quality of this bottle then............ I know nothing about the company other than what you can see on the screen - however, reading their history they appear to promote themselves as purveyors of elegant fragrancies.
Well, I like a bit of social history - and suppose I could always fill with 'Old Spice' ;) I suspect then that this one possibly dates to somewhere around 1920 - 1930 period.