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Perfume Bottles as an Investment

Think twice before you throw away your empty perfume bottles. They could provide an interesting alternative investment for the future.

Modern special edition perfume bottles sold today can become collectors' items of the future - even within the first year some have been known to increase in value by ten times. Every year Estee Lauder produces a special edition bottle. Their Christmas 2003 Harrods-store shaped bottle was sold for about £40 but is now worth in the region of £400 to a collector.

In 1907, the perfume maker Francois Coty went into partnership with Rene Lalique and Lalique produced bottles for all the main perfume manufacturers. Lalique are still producing interesting perfume bottles today and their work is highly sought after. Many are considered to be works of art.

 

As well as special editions and rare bottles however, many mass-produced perfume bottles from the 50s, 60s and 70s also make good collectables. Bottles come in all shapes and sizes from miniature to large Factices or store display bottles. Unopened commercial bottles, with perfect labels and boxes are great collectors' items, as are miniatures, once "giveaway" products but now manufactured for sale as they have become so collectable. Factice bottles were made for display and contained a coloured alcohol mixture. They are exact replicas of the commercial bottles, but on a much larger scale.

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