Is this a makeup compact?

[SeekerProB]

The item in the upper left corner.

 

[Reanm8er]

Congrats SPB, cool find!

Back in the 1920s young women (Flappers) carried small bags like this often attached somehow to themselves
with a belt sash or wrist strap. See the funny, chain mail, looking material of the pouch part of the purse? That's
a dead giveaway for the 20s. The place may have been a "speak easy or" a "house of blue lights". listen to "Mitch Ryder
And The Detroit Wheels" sixties hit "Devil with A Blue Dress On" you'll get the picture.

Looks like plated brass with a snap lid with a glass or porcelain snap down lid.

Best wishes!

 

[namxat]

Congrats SPB, cool find!

Back in the 1920s young women (Flappers) carried small bags like this often attached somehow to themselves
with a belt sash or wrist strap. See the funny, chain mail, looking material of the pouch part of the purse? That's
a dead giveaway for the 20s. The place may have been a "speak easy or" a "house of blue lights". listen to "Mitch Ryder
And The Detroit Wheels" sixties hit "Devil with A Blue Dress On" you'll get the picture.

Looks like plated brass with a snap lid with a glass or porcelain snap down lid.

Best wishes!

I concur with this. In Europe these metal mesh chatelain things came up even earlier .... and stayed for formal occassions quite a while.

 

[ARC]

IMO... this is not a compact... OR even makeup related.

What you have here is a "misers purse" ... err or what is left of the top of one.

Probably Whiting Davis.

 

[ARC]

Similar ... but not limited to...

This...

 

[Reanm8er]

Nice photo post ARC!

 

[SeekerProB]

Here is a picture of it open. I took the glass out of the top. The small pouch was cinched around the bottom. A depth of maybe 2 inches at most. Thanks for the info.

 

[SeekerProB]

Congrats SPB, cool find!

Back in the 1920s young women (Flappers) carried small bags like this often attached somehow to themselves
with a belt sash or wrist strap. See the funny, chain mail, looking material of the pouch part of the purse? That's
a dead giveaway for the 20s. The place may have been a "speak easy or" a "house of blue lights". listen to "Mitch Ryder
And The Detroit Wheels" sixties hit "Devil with A Blue Dress On" you'll get the picture.

Looks like plated brass with a snap lid with a glass or porcelain snap down lid.

Best wishes!

Lol...maybe a 3 merry widows tin will be next!

 

[A2coins]

There are many of those out here lol