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Powder Compacts







Powder Compacts 

Powder Compacts 




 Powder compacts first appeared in the 1900s, but it was the growing popularity of the car in the 1920s and 30s that helped to take them out of the boudoir and into the realm of fashion accessory.










Increasing mobility after world War one , created a demand for portable grooming kits.


Powder Compacts 
More women began to use compacts and it became socially acceptable to reapply make up in public.
The first powder compact were imported from France and the USA, but in the 1930s there was an upsurge in British production.






Most compacts were made of sterling silver, silver plate, chrome plate, or. Gold plate ,but other metals were also used as well as tortoiseshell, and Bakelite.


From plain to detailed, stylish, and bejeweled,powder compacts came in all shapes and sizes, and prices.
Powder Compacts 

Some even had mechanisms that allowed them to play music.

Elegance gradually gave way to souvenir designs and novelty items , soft toys with compacts, for an example  Schuco soft toy with a concealed powder container.





If these are a little extreme, however, you should aim to seek out stylish compacts with musical mechanisms and novelty examples also.


Powder Compacts 
Coty, Kigu, and Stratton are among the leading names.
Slender compacts from the 1930s decorated in a typical art deco style are particularly popular.


By the 1960s, the advent of compressed powder and disposable containers meant that powder compacts , for practical purpose had had their day.


But there beauty  and the nostalgia they evoke, continue to appeal to both  collector and the fashion conscious.
Collectables coach hot tips.

Powder Compacts 
Make sure the compacts hinge is sound and that it opens and shuts easily.

Do not wash any part of the compact, including powder sifter and puff.

Use an old toothbrush and cotton- wool  bud to clean powder traces from compacts.





I hope you have found this page on Powder Compacts  to be informative and helpful.

Happy hunting from the collectibles coach.






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