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COSMETIC BOTTLE TIME LINE
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Early Forms 1800-1830 |
1820-1830 |
1820-1830 |
Characteristics:
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Mid-Century Forms |
1840-1850 |
1840-1860 |
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1860-1870 |
1860-1870 |
1840-1860 |
Characteristics:
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End of Century Forms |
1890-1910 |
1880-1890 |
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1890s |
1880-1900 |
1900-1915 |
Characteristics: Fewer bottles made in color mostly clear glass some milk glass.
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Modern Machine Forms |
1921 |
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1929 |
1934 |
1934 |
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1937 |
Characteristics
Many perfumes of the 1920-30 period still bear hand tolled necks. Perhaps because they often took stoppers and the technology for making them by machine was not developed. In other cases, the bottle will be complete machine made. The vast majority of these are clear in color.
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