Fashion designers such as Hattie Carnegie, Schiaparelli, Lily Dache and Gloria Vanderbilt also hopped on the bandwagon. This is a prize highly competed for by collectors. Other novelty items and clever conceits abounded. Other Flato designs included a postmarked and stamped letter, an organ pipe and a Victorian tufted pillow. There were also compacts displaying such motifs as poodles and Scottish terriers, musicians and dancers, Buddhas and palm trees.
Book help There are several excellent books on the subject of compacts.
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