Featured is a wonderful Vintage Glass Avon Topaze Perfume Bottle.
- In the late 19th century, a traveling book salesman named David H. McConnell
- launched The California Perfume Company.
- In 1938, a year after McConnell’s death, the whole company was renamed Avon Products, Inc.
- It wasn’t until the late 1960s that Avon perfume bottles were produced in novelty shapes like cars, dogs, and cats, which were specifically designed to be collected.
- Figural Avon bottles were made in the shapes of people, for example, a Native American chief,
- In 1966, Avon introduced a cologne for men called Leather, which came in a boot-shaped bottle, which was the one of the earliest novelty decanters the company produced.
- In 1968, Avon found success again selling men’s Sterling Six aftershave in a bottle shaped like a classic roadster car, which is still among the most beloved modern Avon collectibles.
