parsonwalker
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First, I've never found a make-up compact that looks like it was never used - this one is from 1920-1925. It was full of makeup, the deteriorated applicator was there and the mirror was broken, but there. Turns out, the little sucker has historical significance! Research revealed this tidbit:
This ladies rouge compact was marketed between 1920 and 1925. Makeup compacts are found quite often, but this particular brand holds a noteable place in the history of American marketing.
In what would prove to be an advertising coup, Pompeian Products President Otto Leopold succeeded in signing the famous movie star, Mary Pickford, as "Pompeian Beauty of the Year" in 1917. Her face was used extensively in advertising and promotions for Pompeian products and this prompted other cosmetic manufacturers to start using well-known actresses to endorse their own products. While opera singers and stage personalities had been used as figureheads by other companies, Pompeian was the first to use a movie star. This would be a defining moment in cosmetic advertising as the emerging cosmetics industry meshed with the emerging movie industry to become inextricably linked from that time on.
Pretty cool. The other first is this: In all these years of hunting, I've never, ever found a pocket spill. This one is modern, but still. It was enough to buy myself a cold drink at the end of the day. The tubular thing at the rear of the photo is an antique tire pressure gauge. never seen one like it. I was hunting a barnyard over a known Union Camp (Same place I found the unexploded Burton Shell a couple of weeks ago).
Here's the Burton shell, all cleaned up, disarmed and in the case.
This ladies rouge compact was marketed between 1920 and 1925. Makeup compacts are found quite often, but this particular brand holds a noteable place in the history of American marketing.
In what would prove to be an advertising coup, Pompeian Products President Otto Leopold succeeded in signing the famous movie star, Mary Pickford, as "Pompeian Beauty of the Year" in 1917. Her face was used extensively in advertising and promotions for Pompeian products and this prompted other cosmetic manufacturers to start using well-known actresses to endorse their own products. While opera singers and stage personalities had been used as figureheads by other companies, Pompeian was the first to use a movie star. This would be a defining moment in cosmetic advertising as the emerging cosmetics industry meshed with the emerging movie industry to become inextricably linked from that time on.
Pretty cool. The other first is this: In all these years of hunting, I've never, ever found a pocket spill. This one is modern, but still. It was enough to buy myself a cold drink at the end of the day. The tubular thing at the rear of the photo is an antique tire pressure gauge. never seen one like it. I was hunting a barnyard over a known Union Camp (Same place I found the unexploded Burton Shell a couple of weeks ago).
Here's the Burton shell, all cleaned up, disarmed and in the case.
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