EAU DE COLOGNE No. 4711?? 2nd pic +

[digginbot247]

This one looks nice most of the label is still present, has nice manganese purple effect going. Any info??? It stands 8 3/4 inches tall and not sure but I think it was bath salts or something.

 

[whiskeyman]

RE: EAU DE COLOGNE No. 4711??

Hi...
No.4711 was a German Eau de Cologne. I have a couple but none like that one. One is a small flask with a brass plate on one side and a lable on the other...screwcap, so not real old as bottles go.

 

[digginbot247]

RE: EAU DE COLOGNE No. 4711??

Thanks Whiskeyman but this one is a corker a large one at that 1 3/4 opening,not a screw cap any idea on the age or value???

 

[whiskeyman]

RE: EAU DE COLOGNE No. 4711?? 2nd pic

DIGGIN'...one of mine is also a corker. I paid $5.00 for it....no idea of the value of your example. The brand has been around over 200 years. Here's a brief history about it I found on Google:

Eau de Cologne is said to have been invented by Giovanni Paolo de Feminis towards the end of the 17th century. On October 8th, 1792, the Cologne merchant Wilhelm Mülhens received as a wedding present an old parchment with the recipe for "aqua mirabilis" (miracle water). He recognised the value of this gift and started to manufacture this Eau de Cologne (water from Cologne). However, Gianmaria Farina is also said to have acquired the recipe, and he started manufacturing an "Eau admirable" in 1714.

The use of the actual name "Eau de Cologne" is documented only from 1742. In 1810, Napoleon I decreed that it was only allowed to be sold as a perfume, not as a medicine. It was during the French occupation of Cologne that the brand name "4711" was coined. In order to tax the inhabitants more efficiently, all the houses in Cologne were numbered consecutively, and the house of the Mülhens family was house no. 4711. After seven generations of Mülhens managers, the firm was sold in 1994 to the Wella concern.

It is one of the few kinds of perfume to be widely worn by men.
"And still available".

 

[digginbot247]

RE: EAU DE COLOGNE No. 4711?? 2nd pic

Thanks for the history info whiskeyman sounds about like a Turlington's long time runnin

 

[IRISH]

RE: EAU DE COLOGNE No. 4711?? 2nd pic

I knew I had a bottle with that written on it somewhere around here [] , it's very different to you one digginbot247. That's a good bit of history behind them in your post whiskeyman.

 

[Yooper14]

Here's another 4711 I just found

Found this one this weekend from a 10s-20s dump.

 

[digginbot247]

RE: EAU DE COLOGNE No. 4711?? 2nd pic

Those are both nice 4711 all around. I like the ausi one any chance on closer pic of the embossing. Hey just noticed this ones got the directions on the back as well as a

"Note"
note: Genuine speciality treated Sea Salt in the manufacture of this ideal requiste.

Directions: A tablespoon (or 2) in the bathtub renders the water soft and delightful to use,and impacts the refreshing perfume of No. 4711 Eau de Colonge.

So I guess mine is a bath salt after all.

Here is one of the back 4711.