Powder Compact Manufacturers T to Z
Tangee Co - see George W Luft, established in 1920 known for lipstick and rouge in the tangerine shade.
Tattoo - USA manufacturers of tiny companion compacts and tiny lipstick cases. Small enough to fit into the little beaded evening purses of the time.
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| Tattoo Rouge Compact |
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| Tattoo Tiki Hawaiian Themed Rouge Compact |
Hilda Terry - A well-known cartoonist and artist who created the character "Teena", the quintessential teenage girl of the 1940s to 60s. Her cartoon strip was syndicated in newspapers from 1941 through 1966 in the USA. Several of her cartoon scenes appeared in popular magazines and on Rex compacts during this period.
T.L.M - an English trademark
Tiffany - Established in 1837 as Tiffany and Young at 259 Broadway in New York City. In 1851 Tiffany became the first American company to adopt the 925/1000 silver standard that became the standard for sterling. By 1853 the business was known as Tiffany & Co.
Thomae Co - Attleboro, MA. They made top quality sterling guilloche enamel compacts in the 1920s.
Ton-Ton Fifth Avenue - Emerged in the early 40s with vintage plastic compacts and after WWII started to market metal compacts.
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| Signed Puff Ton Ton Fifth Avenue |
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| Ton Ton Fifth Avenue Compact |
Tokalon - a French trademark, noted especially for its Petalia line of powder and cosmetics featuring a black capped smiling Pierrot face that is rumoured to have been designd by Rene Lalique
Tradition - see S & F (Saks Fifth Avenue)
Tre-Jur - The House of Tre-Jur, United Toilet Goods Co NY NY. The House of Tre-Jur was very popular between 1923 to 1942. The girl logo had a full skirt until 1926 when they were forced to revise it due to copyright infringement when it became just the top half of the lady. Compressed powder was their mainstay, originally scented with Joli Memoire.
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| Tre-Jur Compact with pressed powder, puff, card |
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| Tre-Jur Powder Compact post 1926 with half girl Logo |
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| Tre-Jur with Full Skirt Logo Compact pre 1926 |
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| Tre-Jur signed on bottom of compact |
Van Cleef and Arpels - A jewelry business created by Charles, Julien and Louis Arpels in partnership with their brother-in-law Alfred Van Cleef in Paris in 1906. They opened their first US store in NY in 1942 and have become famous, along with Cartier, Boucheron and Tiffany as one of the world's foremost jewelers. In the 1930s VCA patented the minaudiere, an accessory meant to replace the handbag, that was the antecedent of the later carryalls manufactured by Volupte and Evans. In the 1950s VCA designed a series of compacts for Revlon.
Vashe - A maker of small fashionable compacts in the 1930s and 40s. Established in Louisville KY as a manufacturer of pipe organs by the Pilcher family. Son, John Vashe Pilcher, left the company and began his own company in 1885 making buttons and novelties. His cousin John Babbitt joined his company in 1924 and came up with designs for vanity cases branded La Chic and made for 3rd parties. In 1931 they began making powder and rouge repousse painted enamel oblong cases which became their trademark under the Vashe name. Vashe died in 1933 and the Vashe trademark name was abandoned in 1944, and they began using the Pilcher name till the company was sold in 1953 and the production of compacts ended.
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| Vashe Repousse Song Birds Powder Compact |
Versatelle - 1920s to 30s Cigarette/Compact cases.
Vogue Vanities / Vogue Vanitie / La Vogue / Vovan - Brand names used by Blackmore, Howard and Metherell, operating in Birmingham England from the 1930s into the 1950s. Manufacturers of vanity cases, powder boxes, cigarette cases, lipstick cases and perfumery bottle caps in metal. Eventually bought by Stratton in the mid 1950s.
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| Vogue Vanities Powder Compact |
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| Vogue signed on inner lid |
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| Vovan Powder Compact |
Volupte Inc - Fifth Avenue, NY. Along with Evans, this company dominated the carryall market in the 1940s and 1950s. Started as The Superior Novelty Manufacturing Co, Elizabeth NJ. Also made figural compacts such as The Hand compact series. Richard Gaige was Head Designer c1939 to 1958. Bought by Shields in 1957.
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| Volupte Compact |
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| Volupte Compact signed Puff and Inner Lid |
W.B - A trademark found in some Whiting and Davis fine mesh bags.
W.L. / Walter Lampl Inc - Fifth Avenue NY, a jeweler founded in 1921, known for charms and charm bracelets but also designed compacts and vanity items. Ceased business in 1959
Wadsworth - The Wadsworth Watch Case Co, Dayton KY was established in 1890 as a maker of gold filled watch cases. In the 1940s and 1950s they also manufactured fine compacts. Parker Pen Co Canada were given the official distribution rights of Wadsworth compacts in Canada including affixing their name to the advertisements after WWII well into the 1950s. Henriette was a separate company within Wadsworth, created in 1937, a trade name for the NY division of the Wadsworth Case Co of KY. Famous for their novelty compacts such as the 8-ball compact and the Vanity Table. Bought by Elgin National Watch Co (not to be confused with EAM Co) in Dec 1950. The Wadsworth brand disappeared in the late 1950s.
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Wadsworth famous Vanity Table Powder Compact
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| Wadsworth signed Made in Canada |
Whiting and Davis - Plainville, MA was originally Wade Davis Co founded in 1876. Manufacturer of fine mesh bags and accessories since 1896. The mesh was made by hand until 1912 when Whiting and Davis became the first company to use automatic mesh-making machinery invented by A.C. Pratt.
Wilardy Originals - A division of Handbag Specialties Inc, Dallas, NY, a maker of acrylic purses in the 1950s that often included built-in compacts.
C.B. Woodworth and Son - Founded in 1855 by Dr Mitchel and Ezra Taylor in Rochester NY, acquired by Chauncey B Woodworth in association with Reuben A Bunnel in 1856. Woodworth used the Scovill Manufacturing Co of Waterbury CT, a relationship that endured for 15 years. Woodworth was merged with the French and American Bourjois companies (Evening in Paris) and created a new company called The International Perfume Company Inc in 1929. Fiancee was part of the Woodworth line prior to 1930 (launched 1912), but after 1930 International Perfume Inc of NY decided to market all its products under the Bourjois label.
Their second major line was Karess launched in 1922.
CB Woodworth Rouge Compact 1920s Fiancee Line 
CB Woodworth Rouge Compact
Yardley - London England. Yardley complexion cream was introduced in 1929, pots designed by artist Reco Capey (Art Director at Yardley 1928 to 1959), with bakelite lids. Lids a beautiful example of Beatl Moulding, the UK version of bakelite, originally called Beetle Ware and changed to the contraction of "Beat All" or Beatl Ware. Known for the iconic Flower Seller image.
Yardley Compact
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| Yardley signed above inner lid of compact |
Yves St. Laurent - YSL trademark. Designed for Christian Dior in 1953, and had his first solo collection in 1962. Known for his fine jeweled compacts.
Zell - Fifth Avenue. One of the "fifth avenues" along with Rex, Columbia and Dorset. David Zell manufactured compacts as early as the 1920s. Strong in the CarryAll market.
Zell CarryAll with lipstick keeper on the side
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| Zell Vanity Case which hold Lipstick, Compact, and Comb |
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| Zell Flapjack Powder Compact |
Zenette - England. Owned by C.H. Collins and Sns Ltd of Hockley Hill, known for art deco designs.
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| Zenette Powder Compact |
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| signed Zenette on inner lid of compact |
Ziegfeld Girl / Creation - Made first appearance in the early 1940s, using plastic. Designed by Walton B Crane, Allied Plastics. Lines included Glorified Girl, Petticoat Girl, Zodiac Girl, Show Girl. Gone by 1947.
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| Ziegfeld Petticoat Girl Compact with Box, Sleeve and Puff |
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| Ziegfeld Glorified Girl Lucite Compact |
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| Ziegfeld compact with puff |
Here we come to the end of the alphabet for my guides to powder compact manufacturers.
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Any one know how I can find a compact with inlayed mother of pearl and abalone Mermaid round
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