FABERGE: Prestigious jewelry house. Compacts were probably individually commissioned.
FIANCEE: Part of the Woodworth line prior to 1930, but after 1930, International Perfume Inc. of NY decided to market all its products under the Bourjois label.
FLAMINGO: England. Established by the Fulmen Engineering Ltd on the early 1950s. Manufactured compacts for only a few short years.
FLATO: Paul Flato opened shop in New York City in the 1920s as a jewelry designer. he is credited with designing the jewelry worn by Katherine Hepburn in "The Philadelphia Story". He hade compacts in the 1940s and 1950s which were whimsical in design and now very collectible. The majority of his compacts also came with a lipstick which matched the compact.
FOSTER & BAILEY: American. Turn of the century. Exquisite enameled vanities.
GEORG JENSEN: New York division. Georg jensen was a very famous Scandanavian silversmith. Square Lucite compacts with a sterling silver center on the lid depicting doves are believed to be a Georg Jensen design.
GIREY: United States. Manufacturing compacts somewhere between the 1930s and the 1950s. Famous for their "camera" compacts.
GLORIA VANDERBILT: Not the Gloria Vanderbilt of jeans fame. This was Mrs. Reginald Vanderbilt - nee Gloria Morgan. Opened a NY salon from July 1946 until October 1947. Mainly a parfumerie.
GUCCI: Well known name in fashion. Producing contemporary compacts.
GWENDA: Gwenda was the trademark of Hussey-Dawson of Birmingham, England. Began manufacturing compacts circa 1930. Famous for their butterfly wing and foil compacts. At the time they were made, they were actually lower end compacts. Now, very collectible and rather high end. I was told by a British customer that the old Gwenda manufacturing plant is now an office building.
HALSTON: Well known name in fashion. Contemporary compacts.
HARRIET HUBBARD AYER: New York. Trademark name registered by Vincent B. Thomas in 1907 for his cosmetics. The original Harriet Hubbard Ayer was a woman who manufactured Lady Recamier's Facial Creme in the late 1800s and also wrote a popular beauty advice column. HHA was in business at least through the 1950s.
HATTIE CARNEGIE: American costume jewelry manufacturer. probably did a limited range of compact designs sometime in the 1940s to 1950s.
HELENA RUBENSTEIN: American cosmetics house. Probably began mass producing affordable compacts sometime in the 1940s.
HENRIETTE: Tradename for the New York division of the Wadsworth Case Co of Kentucky. Manufactured compacts during the 1940s and 1950s. Famous for their novelty compacts such as the 8-ball compact.
HINGCO VANITIES INC: United States. Manufactured compacts sometime between the 1930s and the 1950s.
HOBE: American costume jewelry manufacturer. Probably had limited number of compact designs sometime in the 1940s to 1950s.
HOUBIGANT: France. Famous perfume house. Exporting compacts as early as the 1920s.
INNOXA: England. Manufacturing compacts as early as the 1930s.
JAY STRONGWATER: High end contemporary compacts.
J M FISHER CO: Attleboro, MA. Manufacturing compacts as early as the 1920s. Very Art Deco and Art Moderne case design. Very vivid colors. Each design had a name. Fragile enamels. Rarity may increase as the enamels deteriorate.
JONTEEL: Cosmetics house. Probably began mass producing affordable compacts in the 1940s.