Perfume Bottles

This little book is truly amazing!! The pictures are exceptional and the text gives an enormous amount of information about the age, design style,and manufacturer. I loved the information about the periods in history that these perfume bottles fell under. All the photos are in color and sogorgeous, you could drool!! Sooo happy I bought the book!!

I love this book. I actually saw this in a shop at Logan Airport while waiting for my flight and decided to order it online as soon as I got back home. It's a terrific book if you are looking for inspiration when making your own handbags (I started making felted handbags recently) or if you just happen to like handbags.Beautiful detailed photos, elegantly presented. Includes ratings by estimated value for collectors.

Met my expectations.

to, flaws and all. (Interesting aside: 2 of the reviews shown for this book are actually about her perfume book and her metal toys book. Pay attention, I am happy to give this book 3 stars, but this is based on the photos alone. I love all purse books and enjoy finding a photo of a vintage bag I've not seen before. However, this book is full of inaccuracies. Some Collins of Texas bags are identified as Enid Collins bags. There is a big difference to collectors; anyone halfway knowledgeable about these bags knows the difference. Ouch, I even cringed to see an Enid bag shown with the original leather straps replaced by metal chains, then represented as original when, in fact, the bag has been butchered and ruined. A few bags are placed in the wrong time period. There is a celluloid bag identified as bakelite, a ridiculous mistake in my opinion. In addition, there are some purse she calls lucite that actually were produced in the style of lucite handbags but, in fact, are a cheaper non-lucite plastic. It makes a big difference in pricing and desirablity. And speaking of pricing, take all of her price guides with a huge grain of salt. I have collected, bought, and sold lucite handbags for nearly 20 years ([...]) and know them cold. Her prices are wildly all over the board. She either had bad advice or just plain guessed. Many are priced way too high, some are even too low. This is an ongoing problem with appraisers; they simply do not have enough precise experience with these bags and the actual marketplace to be accurate. I think the problem with this book is the age old problem: Judith knows a little bit about a lot of things (she produces so many collectible books about so many unrelated subjects), but is not an expert on any of them. At least, if she's an expert on some type of collectibles, it's definitely not vintage handbags. In addition, the layout which makes you turn the book sideways to read what she's written about each purse (correct or incorrect as it may be) was very annoying. Still, I love the photos and, as an avid, passionate vintage purse collector, I must have every book on the subject. If you feel the same way, you'll have to have it people.)

OK...for some Un-Godly reason Amazon has all four of Judith Miller's Pocket collectible guides from DK books linked together. If you review one of the four, it shows up on all the other three. Very Strange...Let me make it clear that this review is only for the Metal Toys Book only! Miller is the long-time collectibles and antiques expert and has assembled hundreds of classic tin, cast iron, and die-cast toys for this wonderful book. The book is sectioned by the three distinct types of metal toys I just mentioned beginning with sheet metal or tin toys. Each toy pictured is given a value range based on 1 to 5 stars with 1 star being a range of $10 - $200, and 5 stars being over $2000. Admittedly these are very broad ranges meant to reflect the condition of the item as well as the availability of the items original box and condition as well.While it's certainly no where near comprehensive, the guide does provide a fair representation of the types, styles, and manufacturers of each of these types of toys and the names are certainly well known to collectors: Dinky, Marx, Cragston, Hubley, Corgi, Tootsie, Schuco, Britains, and Hot Wheels/Mattel. Included are some great early examples of German tin toys such as a fantastic double-decker bus made by Gunthermann that gets a five star value, as well as many great post-WWII toys produced in Japan as factories that formerly made weapons were now being used to make toys. Some other great in toys pictured are the Disney Dipsey car with Donald Duck as the driver made by Marx, and the Nautilus submarine from "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea" made by Sutcliffe.The die-cast section features many of the gorgeous Corgi licensed toys like the Beatles Yellow Submarine, Monkeemobile, James Bond cars, and the classic 1960's Batmobile. There are also numerous Hot Wheels "redlines" pictured but while the photography is top-notch, many of the redlines pictured are in very rough condition with lots of scratches and paint nicks. It would have been nice to see some better examples used for the pictures.One small complaint is that the books is comprised almost entirely of various types of vehicles: cars, airplanes, buses, ships, trucks, wagons, tanks, etc...It was disappointing that things such as the great Japanese tin robots and space toys, and Marx military playsets were not included.That minor complaint aside, I really enjoyed thumbing through the book and it is a useful tool in recognizing, and evaluation the price of metal toys. Now I just need Amazon to fix their end!Reviewed by Tim Janson

This is a great guide book of 400 design perfume bottles for designers, students, collectors and perfume lovers.It could have a better graphic design but the photos are great.It is a really good buy!

A great book to have on hand as reference. Dimensions of the bottles would have been an advantage.