Tips For Buying Egyptian Perfume Bottles

The techniques of making  Egyptian perfume bottles  are  handed down from generation to generation, usually from father to son, as the profession is mainly limited to men. However there are  several  factors which affect the quality of the Egyptian Perfume Bottles:

1. The Glass: High quality Egyptian perfume bottles are made of Pyrex tubes imported from Czechoslovakia and Germany. The tubes are of different diameters. The good craftsman will choose the right diameter to blow the desired bottle size, choosing a thin diameter to blow big bottles will result in a very fragile bottle. Also another bad quality is by making it from recycled glass mainly old florescent lamps tubes. You can recognize the bad quality of glass from it's clarity weight of bottle and tolerance.
2. The Colors: High quality Egyptian perfume bottles are colored by special paints imported from Turkey or Germany, because the bottles are colored then put into oven and heated to very high temperatures, no ordinary colors can be used, the colors get into the glass texture, so you will find the bottles shiny and smooth. Bad or cheap quality craftsman will use ordinary colors which they can not heat in oven so, they color the bottles  and leave it to dry. When you put up this bottle on light you will see the brush strokes and if you feel the bottles they are not smooth sometimes even sticky if the paint is still fresh. This type of bad coloring will peel off by time.
3. The Gold:  Never believe it is a 24k gold, the maximum gold grade used is 12k .The liquid gold painting is imported from Germany and it is very expensive  1 Kilo (2.2 pounds) will cost around 2000Eur($2500), The high quality Egyptian perfume bottles are painted with 12K gold. The bad or cheaper quality perfume bottles craftsman will dilute the gold paint by a thinner so to get a bigger volume of paint accordingly the paint film be thinner and they color a bigger number of bottles. This will cause the gold paintings or trim to oxidize or peel off by time and never as shiny as the genuine quality.
4.  The decorations: High quality Egyptian perfume bottles will have different type of decoration such as etching and embossing, plus the gold and colors. Low or cheap quality glass bottles can not with stand etching, so they are mostly without any etching.
5. The manufacturing: The process of making a  regular small high quality Egyptian bottle, will be made by 3-7 different craftsmen. One is responsible for blowing the main bottle body, second will be responsible for  shaping while blowing, Third for etching fourth for embossed design, fifth for coloring and gold painting. While other are making the dip tube or small parts  added to the bottles. Cheaper or low quality bottles are usually done by a fewer number 1-2 so never the quality is as the specialized production technique.

 Do not forget this points when buying Egyptian Perfume Bottles.

1-Heating Pyrex Glass Tube Remember good quality perfume bottles will not break easily because it was blown from  correct tube diameter 2-Blowing   3-Shaping Shaping of bottle may be made by three to seven different craftsman, each doing a part of the shape. in most cases three at least. 4-Coloring High quality Egyptian perfume bottles are colored by special paints imported from Turkey or Germany, because the bottles are colored then put into oven and heated to very high temperatures. Remember cheap bottles are painted and not put in oven, the bottle will have a rough texture and color will peel off by time. 5-Oven Final step of Egyptian perfume bottle making. This necessary to fix coloring and Gold trimming. Some type of etching and embossing is made after the bottle is taken out of oven.

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