Antique and Vintage Avon Bottles

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Avon Products, Inc., was launched in the late 19th century as California Perfume Company by a traveling book salesman named David H. McConnell. While roaming the United States with his books in tow, McConnell was tinkering with rose-scented
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Avon Products, Inc., was launched in the late 19th century as California Perfume Company by a traveling book salesman named David H. McConnell. While roaming the United States with his books in tow, McConnell was tinkering with rose-scented perfume formulas. He noted that the ladies who answered the door were more interested in his homemade perfume samples than the volumes he was trying to sell. He started selling his perfume on the road as well, eventually settled with his new wife, Lucy, in New York City, and established a perfumery there in 1886. While D.H. McConnell was working out of a small lab in downtown Manhattan, a business partner named C. L. Snyder was based in California and came up with the company's new name, California Perfume Company, or CPC, in 1892, inspired by the state's flower-dotted landscape. In the beginning, the CPC only offered five scents—White Rose, Violet, Heliotrope, Hyacinth, and Lily-of-the-Valley—but by 1896, the company had introduced 20 new fragrances. One of the CPC's first products was "The Little Dot Box," or "The Little Dot Set," which included three bottles of perfume and an atomizer. This set inspired CPC to introduce its hugely popular "Flowers" perfume box, another set with three perfumes and a "Perfect" atomizer, which the company sold between 1892 and 1922. By 1897, CPC had opened a bigger lab in Suffern, New York, where the company could experiment with other cosmetics and toiletries, and D.H. McConnell hired top New York perfumer Adolph Goetting to run his chemistry lab. CPC fragrances included American Ideal, Bay Rum, Jardin D'Amour, Mission Garden, Narcissus, Natoma Rose, Trailing Arbutus, and Vernafleur. Eventually, the company expanded its product line to include shampoos, soaps, skin cream, dental products like "tooth tablets," powders, shaving cream, toilet waters, and flavoring extracts marketed under the name Perfection. While CPC's cosmetics were labeled with stunning lithographic lettering and...
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