Large Red & Gold Hand Blown Egyptian Glass Perfume / Scent Bottle

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Good Hand Blown Glass Egyptian Perfume Bottle Not your cheap tacky tourist muck, but made by our own workshops in Cairo. It has a nice bit of gold banding to the top bowl, with some engraved detail. This one is about 7 inches or 18cm tall. The Sales Pitch............ We spent a month in Cairo a couple of years ago to find out a bit more about the products we sell (seemed like a good idea......) and we were impressed. Each bottle is completely hand blown (rather than being blown into a mould, which is not quite the same thing) and each bottle takes approximately 40 minutes to one hour to complete - decorating time is extra.......... The gold used, which we always assumed was gold paint, is, in fact, 12 carat gold. The glass used is of the highest quality - much heavier than the cheaper commercial variety of bottle. And, last but not least, everyone who works for us is over school leaving age and the working conditions are good. By working directly with our Egyptian counterparts, we are able to negotiate the quality and design of the bottles rather than just having to buy 'off the shelf' jobs, making our bottles, we think, more interesting and collectable than the run of the mill stuff that you can buy pretty much everywhere. You may be able to buy cheaper, but you can tell the difference when you put ours side by side with the some bottles...... It will, of course, be carefully packed in industrial quantities of bubblewrap in order to foil our postmen. All bottles are individually photographed and described - what you see is what you get. If you buy more than one item (of any kind) from us, please wait to be invoiced before paying in order to be given a postage discount - it can save you quite a bit at times. The boring bits............ Despite everything written below, I actually enjoy selling on e bay........................ it makes money and satisfies the masochistic part of my nature............ Most customers are great, even when things go wrong, as they sometimes will. Our Feedback is good, especially considering that most of the things we sell are delicate breakable vintage items. But now that we can't leave negative feedback for mad buyers, this really is the only way.......... I post daily, unless the car breaks down or we're flooded, or the mice running this computer escape from their little wheel, or I have a terrible hangover from celebrating with Krug Champagne our latest e bay sale, or something. We live in a house heated by log fires.......... so, although every fabric based item is freshly laundered before being sent out, if the faint whiff of woodsmoke that seems to cling to everything offends you, please don't bid on these items, I won't refund you 'because it smells of smoke' - you can rinse it through again if you want to............. Yes, I know that sounds stroppy, but its either make this clear at the beginning or lose the will to live............ I always obtain proof of posting, but really cannot be responsible for the post office's whimsical delivery standards , We do offer a recorded delivery service, and would strongly advise that you use it. If you don't, and the item goes missing, I'll send you the proof of posting so that you can make a claim from the post office. If you choose the recorded delivery option and it still goes missing, I'll sort it out myself and refund your money. Sometimes I even just spring for the Recorded Delivery cost myself if I'm really pleased with the price I get for an item........ but don't rely on this. We will only post to ITALY on an INTERNATIONAL SIGNED FOR service - far to much goes missing otherwise. We will not post to NIGERIA at all, even if you do offer to put the £78,000,000 that you have stolen from your government into my bank account. The post office will not insure delicate items........... the dear of them.......... so we offer a voluntary insur... read more

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