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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;bercrystal, post: 2706235, member: 88&quot;][USER=85]@clutteredcloset49[/USER] is correct. Irice was owned by Irving W. Rice. Here&#039;s a little background on the company. </p><p><br /></p><p>The company started as a “jobber” or importer of various vanity items in the 1920s in New York. The head of the company was named Irving W. Rice and he gave an abbreviation of his name to the company, which has appeared on the distinctive silver and blue foil labels ever since - IRICE. The company still exists today in New York and every Christmas if you go to a drug store and look on the counter there will be a display of IRICE atomizers.</p><p><br /></p><p>IRICE didn’t actually manufacture these perfume bottles, they were importers and jobbers. So the perfume atomizers and bottles came in a wide variety of modes from many, diverse countries.</p><p>IRICE brought in box-car loads of Czechoslovakian crystal before World War II. During the war, IRICE employed American companies. After the hostilities had ended, the company began importing again, but this time from West Germany – the labels reflect this.</p><p><br /></p><p>Today most of IRICE’s sources are in the Far East in Japan and later in Taiwan.</p><p><br /></p><p>IRICE is located in New York City at 15 West 34th St. and continues to supply vanity items and perfume bottles to America.</p><p><br /></p><p>For a brief period in the 1930&#039;s IRICE dabbled in commercial perfumes (that is, perfumes that came in the bottle) and created a limited line of these fragrances (Grape Cologne and Pineapple among them). A perfume called Renaissance that was contained in an IRICE bottle for the Scherk company is occasionally falsely sold as a Victorian antique today. The bottle was made from heavy pressed glass with a gilt frame and marble-like jewel on each corner of the frame. The portrait of an old fashioned lady completed the antique look though the bottle is from about 1935.</p><p><br /></p><p>Any collection of IRICE items can be dated by the information on the labels or by carefully examining the parts of the atomizer. A glass tube in the atomizer means 1930&#039;s roughly, while by the time of the 1950&#039;s plastic tubing was found in the atomizer. Most of the porcelain flower decorated atomizers date to the 1950&#039;s. Time line on the labels can be determined by the country cited under the name &quot;Irice.&quot; So it goes: Czech, American, West Germany, Japan, and finally Taiwan.</p><p><br /></p><p>Most heavily collected and sought today are the IRICE series called Little Drams or sometimes Stubby series. These were tiny perfume bottle made in Czechoslovakia with charms or dangles hanging from chains from the top of the stopper. A wide variety of animals and dolls have been seen. A cross-over collectible here is the 1939 World&#039;s Fair IRICE bottle with the peristyle and hemisphere charms. Most other IRICE perfumes are still in the category of inexpensive collectibles.</p><p><br /></p><p>I got this from the site below. </p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.justcollecting.com/miscellania/irice-perfume-bottles" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.justcollecting.com/miscellania/irice-perfume-bottles" rel="nofollow">https://www.justcollecting.com/miscellania/irice-perfume-bottles</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Needless to say, there are a lot of bottles out there that bear the Irice labels some more expensive than others. Some of the things that determine price would be the color of the glass, how intricate the cutting is, does the stopper have a design also, &amp; can it be attributed to a specific maker.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>This thread has some information on Franz Joseph Vater. Two bottles attributed to him sold last month at the IPBA auction for $25K. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie56" alt=":jawdrop:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie56" alt=":jawdrop:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie56" alt=":jawdrop:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p>I had always been under the impression that the round acid-etched made in Czechoslovakia mark was used later after WWII &amp; the oval mark was used before WWII. Given the style of this bottle that would fit that time frame. It is simpler than those made pre-WWII during which many of the glass producing factories were lost. I would &quot;guesstimate&quot; this bottle to be circa late 1940&#039;s to early 1950&#039;s. </p><p><br /></p><p>If you are going to sell it definite keywords would be Irice, cut glass or crystal,&nbsp; acid-etched mark &amp; original labels.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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