We Added Some New Perfume Factice Bottles to the Company’s Collectibles Portfolio

There are actually two sizes of the Calvin Klein Obsession for Men factice bottle in existence. This is the larger of the two; we will need to track down the smaller, which measures roughly 10 inches tall.

Through one of the private businesses I control, we have a collectibles portfolio consisting of everything from the Carl Barks artwork I’ve told you about to rare books.  One of the things we acquire is the hard-to-find perfume factice bottles that used to be popular at department stores, especially those in the high-end spectrum, back in the 1980′s and even 1990′s.  They still exist to some degree but are a dying art, it seems.

We buy these bottles on a targeted basis, have them polished and cleaned, and fill them with liquid matching the original color of the perfume or cologne they were supposed to represent (factices don’t actually contain perfume in the store).

For now, they sit around headquarters and look awesome.  They make up a relatively tiny portion of our overall portfolio of businesses, stocks, bonds, etc., but they are fun and I enjoy doing it.  The fact they appreciate and can be sold later at a profit makes them even more attractive to me.

Anyway, yesterday, we bought a Calvin Klein Obsession for Men factice.  We should receive it in a week, so when we have the final staged pictures, I’ll upload them.

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