OK, I was going to pan these glass collectibles because cars used to hold liquids and having the cap be the front grill or whatever was questionable. Or worse, add the cap for a design that does not allow it to be part of the design, like a cap on top of a Model A Ford. The after shave in a bottle shaped like a razor. (This last at least limits the amount of after shave lotion to be used.) The after shave bottle that looks like a shot gun shell. Fishing lures, teddy bears, glass slippers, a pipe, a spark plug, a sea horse. You get the idea. Even the several cat shaped bottles are not as good as they could be.

Then I saw the moose bottle. Nice moose. The attitude of the neck and head is a little odd, but the overall effect is much better than all the other Avon bottles I have ever seen. So, I bought one. It arrived today and I am still pleased. If they can do the moose this well, what happened in the design of all the others?

The bottles designed for after shave lotions are aimed at men, but as gifts from women. Most men would like to be able to throw an empty bottle out, but the “collectibility” of Avon bottles is going to require him to keep them, unless no one searches the trash at his house, and no one keeps track of which bottles should be in the bathroom. So, the recipient is stuck decorating his bath or end of the counter in these after shave bottles. Might make a man give up shaving.

The bottles aimed at women are little better. The female figures are usually of two colors, like pink and white or pink and flesh color or two shades of pink, and not particularly interesting or well modeled. The animals interesting to women, frogs, turtles, kittens in baskets, etc., are not all that great either. It is like the company figured that had a captive audience with marginal taste and went no further than absolutely necessary to depict the object in question. Women at home parties or looking through the catalog would buy them regardless, simply because of what they represented and would not worry about the lahttp://glasscollectiblesguide.com/wp-admin/post-new.phpck of fine detail or good design.

Even as I write this, there are 92 pages of bottles for sale on eBay, so apparently the company was right about women buying them. Add a good percentage have been saved over the years, obviously, so I guess that makes them collectible, but do not plan on making money on the secondary market. The high price end f the list involved many, many bottles in a lot or a bottle and the mold it was made in, which should be hard to find and in very limited number. As usual, bottles with the box will do better than those without. Having the product inside does not seem to be a factor.

I guess what I would say to you, if there are some of these bottles that have a special meaning to you, by all means own them, for you own pleasure and not because they will ever be worth anything to anyone else. Perhaps your dad had a special one he kept, or you mom gave you one. Select your Avon bottles for sentimental reasons, and let any others go by without a tweak of “should I buy it and hold it until”, because they are not of any real value beyond personal attachment.

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