Showing posts with label compacts. Show all posts
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Monday, December 20, 2021

Elgin American Vanities Compacts Catalog Page (1931)

Elgin American Vanities Compacts Catalog Page 1931.









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Thursday, September 1, 2016

Marathon Compacts & Vanities Advertisement (1927)

Marathon Compacts & Vanities Advertisement (1927 Beautiful engine turned and enameled compacts and vanities by Marathon in an advertisement from a 1927 Huntley & Co. catalog. These compacts were stated to be made up of "white gold composition silver", in other words, a white metal alloy made to look like white gold or sterling silver.

M175 - White and green gold composition silver, gold lined. Contains mirror, powder, rouge, lip stick and eye brow pencil, amber and rose enamel, hand engraved and engine turned design. Soldered link chain, guaranteed. $15.00.

M176 - White and green gold composition silver, gold lined. Contains mirror, powder and rouge Engine turned design. Soldered link chain, guaranteed. $9.75.

M177 - All white composition silver, gold lined. Contains mirror, powder, rouge, lip stick and eye brow pencil, amber and rose enamel. Engraved design. Soldered link chain, guaranteed. $14.25.

M178 - All white composition silver. Contains mirror, powder, and rouge. Rose and black enamel center, engraved design. Soldered link chain, guaranteed. $11.25.

M179 - White and green gold composition silver, gold lined. Contains mirror, powder, and rouge. Amber stone set with Parisian marcasites. Engine turned design. Soldered link chain, guaranteed. $13.50.

M180 - White and green gold composition silver, gold lined. Contains mirror, powder, rouge, lip stick and eye brow pencil. White and rose enamel center. Engine turned design. Soldered link chain, guaranteed. $15.00.

M181 - All white composition silver, gold lined. Contains mirror, powder, rouge, lip stick and eye brow pencil. Engine turned design. Soldered link chain, guaranteed. $12.75.

M182 - All white composition silver. Black enamel lines. Contains cigarette holder, powder, rouge, lip stick and mirror. Engine turned design. Soldered link chain, guaranteed. $21.75.

M183 - All white composition silver. Engine turned with blue and rose enamel center. Contains cigarette holder, powder, rouge, lip stick and mirror. Soldered link chain, guaranteed. $19.50.

M184 - All white composition silver, cigarette case with mirror. Engine turned design, black and rose enamel center, guaranteed. $12.00.

M185 - All white composition silver cigarette case with mirror. Engine turned design, guaranteed. $10.50..

M186 - White and green gold composition silver, gold lined. Contains loose powder, rouge and mirror. Engraved and brocaded design, guaranteed. $6.75.

M187 - White and green gold composition silver, gold lined. Contains loose powder, rouge and mirror. Black and rose enamel center, guaranteed. $9.00.

M188 - All white composition silver, gold lined. Contains mirror, powder, rouge, lip stick and eye brow pencil. Blue and rose enamel center, Engine turned design. Soldered link chain, guaranteed. $14.25.

M189 - All white composition silver, gold lined. Contains mirror, powder, rouge, lip stick and eye brow pencil. White and blue enamel center, Engine turned design. Soldered link chain, guaranteed. $14.25.


















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Thursday, November 19, 2015

Marathon Compacts & Vanities Catalog Advertisement (1932)

Great looking Marathon compacts shown in an advertisement from a 1932 L&C Mayers, New York catalog. Beautiful enameled compacts, handled dance compacts, vanity cases, combination compacts and lipsticks.



























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