PBQ translated to German:
From the Fall 2005 edition Gerda Marshall has translated the magazine to German.

Wußten Sie schon, es gibt die Clubzeitschrift auch mit deutschem Text?
Übersetzung der IPBA Hefte ab Heft XVIII,No.1,Fall 05, können nachbestellt werden.

Volunteer Opportunities Available for IPBA Members
IPBA is eager to have more of its members contributing their time, talents and ideas to help the IPBA move forward. Several teams or committees have been established that will give members the opportunity to serve the IPBA and make it a more vibrant and fun organization.
Committee members will be generating ideas and plans for achieving objectives and with helping to carry out plans that are put in motion by the Board. IPBA members can contact any Board member for more information and to make suggestions for other teams which are needed. Currently we have the following teams which need volunteers:

Perfume Library Available on CD
The fabulous perfume library of IPBA Archivist, Helen Farnsworth, is now available for purchase on CD. This archival material has been compiled by Helen over a period of 30 years and includes perfume catalogs, advertising, and a database of over 26,000 perfume entries on 597 pages. The database with worldwide coverage contains company names, presentation names, perfume names, trade names, line names, distributors, perfumers, locations and dates. The library is contained in a two-disk set at the cost of $25. This cost includes priority shipping.
For further information contact Helen Farnsworth at cwf8551@aol.com.

Research on IRICE by Helen Farnsworth, Archivist
Over the years Helen Farnsworth, IPBA Archivist, has answered many questions about perfume bottles, but the most frequently asked questions have been about IRICE. She has decided to write up a report on what is known about this company which we are pleased to publish on this website.
The company started as a jobber or importer of various vanity items in the 1920's in New York. The head of the company was named Irving W. Rice and he gave an abbrievation of his name to the company which appears on the distinctive silver and blue foil labels ever since - IRICE. The company still exists today in New York and every Christmas if you go to a drug store and look on the counter there will be a display of Irice atomizers. The company never made the items. They were importers and jobbers. So the perfume atomizers and bottles spanned a wide variety of qualities and countries. Irice brought in boxcar loads of Czechslovakian crystal before World War II. During the war, Irice used American companies and then after hostilities were over, the company began importing again, but this time from West Germany and the labels reflect this. Today most of the sources are in the Far East in Japan and later in Taiwan.
Irice is located in New York City at 15 West 34th St. and continues to supply vanity items and perfume bottles to America.

For a brief period in the 1930's Irice dabbled in commercial perfumes (that is, perfumes that came in the bottle) and had a very small line of these fragrances like Grape Cologne and Pineapple and a more high end bottle that is often today called a Victorian antique when found. This bottle held a perfume called Renaissance that was in a Irice bottle for the Scherk company. The bottle was in heavy pressed glass with a gilt frame and marble-like jewel on each corner of the frame. The portrait of a Renaissance lady completed the antique look, but the bottle is from about 1935.

Any collection of Irice items can be dated by the information on the labels or by carefully examining the parts of the atomizer. A glass tube in the atomizer means 1930's roughly, while by the time of the 1950's plastic tubing was found in the atomizer. Most of the porcelain flower decorated atomizers date to the 1950's. Time line on the labels can be determined by the country cited under the name "Irice." So it goes: Czech, American, West Germany, Japan, and finally Taiwan.

Most heavily collected and sought today are the Irice series called Little Drams or sometimes Stubby series. These were tiny perfume bottle made in Czechoslovakia with charms or dangles hanging from chains from the top of the stopper. A wide variety of animals and dolls have been seen. A cross-over collectible here is the 1939 World's Fair Irice bottle with the peristyle and hemisphere charms. Most other Irice perfumes are still in the category of inexpensive collectibles. To date very little has appeared in print about these perfume bottles and atomizers.
[Thank you Helen for this comprehensive report.]

Estee Lauder Solid Perfumes - Book review by Lenore Worth Hiers, past president.
The Estee Lauder Solid Perfume Compact Collection, 1967-2001 by Roselyn Gerson. Finally -- the reference book which collectors of solid perfumes have been dreaming about for years. Longtime IPBA member Roselyn Gerson has created this in cooperation with the Estee Lauder Company. Its 160 pages are packed full of color photographs of these precious little collectibles, listed and identified chronologically by their date of issue – many of which were unknown to even advanced collectors. No more guessing – now we know! Plus original prices and current collector values are assigned to the items.

In addition, the book contains wonderful photos and information about Mrs. Estée Lauder herself, photos of clever theme settings by IPBA members Ann and Ken Clark, sample Internet auction results of premier items, an overview on how these solid perfume items are created, and some of the original creative drawings.
This hardbound book is published by Collector Books but autographed copies are available from the author herself:
Roselyn Gerson, PO Box 40, Lynbrook NY 11563 USA.
Cost is $24.95, plus shipping. [USA $3.00; Canada $8.40 surface or $11.05 airmail; International $10.50 surface or $21.85 airmail]

Caron Perfume Company - Book review by Lenore Worth Hiers, past president.
IPBA member Jean-Marie Martin-Hattemberg has written and published a wonderful book on the Caron perfume company, covering the period from 1900 to today. This gorgeous, large size, 200 page book is filled with beautiful photographs of bottles and advertisements, and includes text in both French and English.
To purchase the book contact either Jean-Marie in France, or Monsen & Baer, Box 529, Vienna VA 22183 in the United States. The price to purchase from Monsen & Baer is $69.95 + 9.00 s/h = $78.95 total.

Masterpieces of the Perfume Industry - Book review by Lenore Worth Hiers, past president.
IPBA member Christie Mayer Lefkowith has produced another wonderful book on perfume bottles. It is titled "Masterpieces of the Perfume Industry."
This lavishly illustrated 352 page book includes 557 color plates, showing almost 1300 objects produced for the perfume industry during the 19th and 20th centuries, most of them never published before in such complete and pristine condition. It documents the contributions and influence of many artists and industry innovators, such as Rene Lalique, Paul Poiret, Julien Viard, Lucien Gaillard, Henri Hamm, Maurice Depinoix, Georges Lepape, Paul Iribe, Andre Groult, Daillet, Georges Dumoulin, Louis Sue and Andre Jollivet. It reports on the key role of many glassworks and crystalworks such as Baccarat, Brosse, Depinoix, Pochet & du Courval and Lalique. It outlines how perfume presentations related to La Belle Epoque, Art Nouveau, Classicism, Orientalism, Art Deco, Modernism and the Romantic styles. It also describes the social and historical context for the creation of these masterpieces.
To order, in North America --
Christie Mayer, Inc. FDR Station, PO Box 5200, New York NY 10150-5200
Price $125 plus shipping and handling $7.75 = total $132.75. However, New York state residents must also add tax of $10.31 = total $143.00. Make checks payable to Christie Mayer, Inc.
In Europe, from Art & Fragrances in Switzerland or France. Contact Ms. Lefkowith for details on ordering in Europe.

Lalique Perfume Bottles -- Addendum Available - Lenore Worth Hiers, past president.
Now available is an addendum and photo supplement to the wonderful 1990 book by Glenn & Mary Lou Utt "Lalique Perfume Bottles." These feature 87 additional bottles. The cost of the addendum is $35.00; photo supplement $35; or both $60.00.
Also available are signed copies of the original book at a cost of $40.00, and a limited quantity of the 1990 Tokyo Teien Museum Exhibition Catalog of Lalique Perfume Bottles, which contains fabulous photos at a cost of $40.00. Shipping/handling in US is $3.50; Europe $7.50. And applicable state sales tax also.
All can be purchased as follows:
Lalique Perfume Bottles, PO Box 810, Houghton MI 49931-810
Fax: 906-487-9432 Email: mlbud@webtv.net