It all started with her mother's compact. Gold, with enameled yellow flowers on the lid, the compact popped open on a tiny hinge to reveal compartments for face powder and rouge below a beveled mirror ...

THE star of Bill Dootson's hobby collection is deposited safely in his bank - for security purposes. His ''jewel'' is one of 300 powder and perfume compacts he and his wife Jackie have collected over ...

I found this charming La Bara face powder box at a compact collectors convention held in Las Vegas in the late 1990s. There was little interest in cosmetics ephemera at that time, at least at the ...

The owner of these compacts admits to Judith Miller that, in total, her collection consists of around 500 examples. The quality of the examples on the table is stunning. These were luxury items in ...