Compact & Bijou

Compact & Bijou Collectable vintage compacts & accessories c.1930-1960

SEASIDE VINTAGE
Reconditioned 1930s-50s powder compacts with original Thanet souvenir postcards, vintage seaside-themed compacts, related memorabilia and photo coasters & mugs

Petticoat Lane Emporium
Dumpton Park Drive, Ramsgate
Cabinet 6

THE POWDERPUFF GIRL
British, European & American deco / wartime / vintage powder compacts, vanity cases, and related accessories

Occasional tables at vintage fairs - Loulou’s Canterbury, Ramsgate Tunnels, ex-Alexandra Palace

Supersize Me!A late 1940s LSM compact with Belle Epoque-style repoussé decoration made at the Edward Street Works in Dun...
15/09/2025

Supersize Me!
A late 1940s LSM compact with Belle Epoque-style repoussé decoration made at the Edward Street Works in Dundee, Scotland.
With a diameter of 4 1/2 inches, this compact has a mirror large enough not just to powder your nose, but to see anyone coming up behind you! 🪞👀



Always have room for one more compact with my favourite London scene! 🥰 (this one by the Birmingham brand ‘Vogue Vanitie...
10/09/2025

Always have room for one more compact with my favourite London scene! 🥰 (this one by the Birmingham brand ‘Vogue Vanities’)
It’s been a long time since I’ve posted, seven months to be precise! 😢 In that time, I’ve been diagnosed with a rare autoimmune disease, have undergone chemotherapy, premature cataract surgery, and for the foreseeable am receiving monoclonal antibody treatment. Hope now to get back to posting more frequently 😊
I’ll need to be immunosuppressed for the rest of my life, so need to avoid crowds and can’t travel like I used to, even up to London - which is making me especially nostalgic for these vintage London scenes! 💕

Happy Valentine’s Day! 💘
14/02/2025

Happy Valentine’s Day! 💘

Happy New Year and best wishes for 2025 from ! 🥳
01/01/2025

Happy New Year and best wishes for 2025 from ! 🥳

Who needs plastic package shame,When you can deftly raise the game?Show your fabulous vintage flairWith a pillbox extrao...
10/12/2024

Who needs plastic package shame,
When you can deftly raise the game?
Show your fabulous vintage flair
With a pillbox extraordinaire!
Win the vintage style race
With an ‘Evans’ powder case!
Use this eco-friendly hack
To transport pills without their pack.
The deep brass well has ample space
To hold your pills and check your face.
Beauty may be just skin deep,
But this powder case is one to keep.
Let’s make a New Year’s vintage mission
To launch a limited edition
Of glamour, elegance and repose
That used to powder puff a nose.
Let’s re-invent vintage compact cases
And show them in the fanciest places!
Let’s repurpose vintage beauty gains
For remedies to aches and pains;
For tissues, sweets, or gum, or pills;
For credit cards, or coins, or bills.
Re-use cosmetics of yesteryear
For sustainability we can cheer!
Let’s cherish long-lost vintage friends
And do our best to make amends :-)

As the Women’s Gymnastics kicks off at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, here is a series of powder compacts that were made ...
29/07/2024

As the Women’s Gymnastics kicks off at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, here is a series of powder compacts that were made in Idar-Oberstein Germany for the 1936 Games in Berlin 😊

A PAIR OF POOCHES 🐶🐶 Two mid-1930s powder compacts made in Czechoslovakia for the ‘Princess’ brand, registered by entrep...
18/06/2024

A PAIR OF POOCHES 🐶🐶

Two mid-1930s powder compacts made in Czechoslovakia for the ‘Princess’ brand, registered by entrepreneur Salo David Rand as a UK Trademark for “powder boxes made of precious metal or in imitation of precious metal” on 7th November 1934

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SEASIDE VINTAGE Reconditioned 1930s-50s powder compacts with original Thanet souvenir postcards, vintage seaside-themed compacts, related memorabilia and photo coasters & mugs Petticoat Lane Emporium Dumpton Park Drive, Ramsgate Cabinet 6 THE POWDERPUFF GIRL British, European & American deco / wartime / vintage powder compacts, vanity cases, and related accessories At various vintage fairs: e.g. Loulou’s Canterbury Vintage Fair (for vintage carryalls & fitted handbags), Ramsgate Tunnels Collectors’ fair (for wartime-related compacts and accessories)