A classic French René Lalique perfume bottle (right) was on offer at Virginia auction house Jeffrey S Evans on August 24-25 from the collection of the late Joan M Wentz, Germansville, Pennsylvania, which had been amassed over 50 years.
There was just one snag, as the Mount Crawford auction house’s William F Kimbrough explained: “Unfortunately, we could not locate the stopper for the bottle at the Wentz home, and had to offer it without – no telling what it would have brought with the stopper!”