Vintage Floral Lillian Vernon Ceramic Pink Candle.

1960s/1970s dead stock “Ceramic Embroidered Flower Candle”. Made in Japan. Measures 4” tall x 3.5” wide. Still in original box. Candle never burned. Pink candle poured into decorative hexagon ceramic container with lid. Mint condition. Pink, blue, yellow flowers and green leaves. Candle has a very nice light floral powdery scent. Box has evidence of age (see pictures). Smoke free home.

Lillian Vernon Corporation was founded in 1951 under the name Vernon Specialties. The name was taken from the founder's adopted home in Mount Vernon, New York; her Jewish family had fled Nazi Germany in 1937, when she was ten years old. At that time, Lilly Menasche Hochberg was 22 years old, recently married, pregnant, and looking for a business she could run from her kitchen table. Hochberg soon changed her first name to the more American-sounding 'Lillian,' and eventually became known as Lillian Vernon.

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