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PURFUME BOTTLE

Overview

This bottle comes from the Lipfert home at 270 York Street, Subiaco where the family lived from 1910- 1989.
a). A slim cylindrical clear glass bottle, tapering to a point at lower end, with fluting on its sides.On the bottle is a pale green paper label, with picture of lavender flowers and a girl on a horse and the words 'Potter and Moores, Original Mitcham Lavender. Estd. 1749.London.'
b).A fluted yellow metal screw top lid with stip of metal at the top to alloow the thread to pass through.
c). Green cotton thread tassel.

Historical information

This bottle was found in the Lipfert home at 270 York Street, Subiaco where the family lived from 1910-1989. Miss Gertrude Lipfert lived in the family home at 270 York Street, Subiaco until her death in 1989. Daughter of Otto Lipfert, taxidermist at WA Museum. Otto Lipfert was born in Germany in 1864 .. He trained and worked there as a furrier, but he developed a keen interest in nature and the animal species that were exciting Europeans in Australia. On hearing there was no taxidermist in Western Australia he migrated in 1892, making the voyage in a British ship so that he could learn English on the way.
In 1894 he became the first taxidermist to work for the Western Australian Museum. He made his first collecting trip—to the Abrolhos Islands—that spring.
Lipfert was naturalised in 1900. In 1902 he married German-born Anna Struck at the German club in Perth. The couple built a house at 270 York St (formerly Gibney Street), Subiaco, where members of the Lipfert family lived until 1989. Three daughters: Gertrude, Minna (died in 1959) and Elsa. Otto died in Perth in 1942. Anna died in 1967. (90.203)

Details

Details

Registration number
cwa-org-43-1990.239a-c
Item type
Material
Width
19 mm
Height or length
100 mm
Statement of significance

A perfume bottle used in the Lipfert home, local residents.

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