Tuesday, September 11, 2012

Green and loud Rex compact



This is one loud and proud vintage compact. While we possibly over paid for this Rex Fifth Avenue delight - it was $60 at an antiques fair were they tend to over charge, I love not only the colouring, the shape, the compartments inside but that the design is double sided. The green covering with single flowered detailing top with green metal edging is repeated on the bottom.Opening the compact reveals three compartments - the two smaller compartments perhaps being for rogue, finished off with a larger powder well secured down with a hinged closing flap. All these compartments would originally have had puffs and with powder well perhaps a stiff too. "Rex Fifth Avenue" is engraved upon the powder well flap. The understated insides only come to make the top and the bottom scream out more glamour.

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