Some type of make up case?

abynum1

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Found this at a spot where a house from around 1900 used to be.
The house is no longer there, and there has been a lot of bull dozing in the area over the years, so didn't find a lot, but I did find this about 6" down. Any idea what it is? When I opened it, it had a white powder substance in it.
The top piece has a clear plastic or glass in it.
I know it's hard to tell from my pic, but that's a butterfly and flowers engraved on the outside.
Oh yea, it's about 3" in diameter.
 

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Ladies powder compact.

Can you get a better photo of the outside surface that has the detail on it?
 
I would also say a ladies compact. Top part would have had a mirror in it. Nice find.
 
The shape and plastic/foil mirror makes it look like it is an early "Audrea Du Val" makeup compact from the 1920's - 1930's. Kind of cool because they were 'Roaring Twenties' 'Flapper' rouge compacts. All the rage then among the younger set. Your grandmother's teenage makeup :). Yours has one more hinge on it than the one in my pics so it's probably a little larger diameter and would have probably had a more high volume makeup like foundation or something in it.

Before I get ribbed for knowing this, I hunt alot of old homesites and see these often around houses that were active in that period. I doggedly research everything I find.

:grin:

Here are a few pics of a 30's iteration, still ready to paint the town.....

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Different hinge/clasp but now that you post that pic it sure looks like a butterfly on his top. It may be a year older or newer with the same design. Nice research.
 
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