Bourjois - an Evening in Paris

Bourjois is a make up brand is a one we all know and love - and is one with a history. It was one of the first companies to create a powder in 1863 sold in their famous "pots", later introducing make up kits, lightening products and catalogs in 1897 for cosmetics we'd all be familiar with today.  In 1928 it launched it's most popular fragrance Evening in Paris [Soir de Paris] - one which created endless associated products. During the 1930s Evening in Paris gift boxes were produced and filled with beauty essentials, from the perfume, lipsticks, rogue and the powder all carrying the infamous blue colouring of the perfume bottle. It is from this set that this vintage powder compact is part of.

The geometric lines and the strong blue and silver colouring to this compacts top suggests this compact is of a 1930s origin additionally its small size would confirm an early date. Opening up the compact reveals a mirror, tight and clean silver powder well flap with original and somewhat well used puff with the branding visible in silver writing. On the bottom of the compact we can see Bourjois marked along with Evening in Paris. Additionally I've seen similar compacts with reference to being distributed in the USA, perhaps suggesting that is compact wasn't originally sold in America. 

We found this little cutie at an antiques fair in Southfield that now seems a lifetime ago in March this was one of the few comapcts in reasonable shape that they weren't charging the earth for. Sometimes I think the prices at such events would really put people off collecting but they seem to draw in the masses either way.