VINTAGE COMPACT DESIGNERS M - R
NAPIER: American costume jewelry manufacturer. Probably began a limited line of compacts in the 1940-1950 era.
NORIDA: No definitive information.
PALOMA PICASSO: Well known name in jewelry design. Contemporary compacts.
PLASSARD: Paris, France.
PLATE: United States. In operation as early as the 1940s. Famous for their plastic Trio-ettes which came in seven colors - ivory, ebony, carnelian, tortoise, briar rose, Nile green and Rueben blue.
PRINCESS MARCELLA BORGHESE: Well known cosmetics house. Contemporary compacts.
PRINCESS PAT: No definitive information.
PYGMALION: England. Manufacturing at least during the `1940s and 1950s. Famous for their novelty compacts such as the globe which was done in 1951.
REGENT: London, England. This signature is found on compacts of the 1950s. Very similar designs to Melissa compacts.
REX FIFTH AVENUE: United States. Manufacturing compacts at least during the 1940s and 1950s. May be a connection to Dorset Fifth Avenue as there are many compacts and purses found with the Dorset-Rex Fifth Avenue signature.
RHOJAN: Making compacts at least in the 1930s.
RICHARD HUDNUT: American cosmetics company. Manufacturing compacts as early as the 1920s.
RIMMEL: England. Manufacturing compacts as early as the 1920s. Still in business today. Model Kate Moss is the "face of Rimmel".
ROBERT: American costume jewelry designer. Probably did a very limited line of compacts in the late 1940s-1950s era. Did several novelty designs such as a vanity table compact and a grand piano compact.
ROGER & GALLET: Perfume house in Paris, France.
ROWENTA: Germany. Exporting compacts to the US and Great Britain as early as the 1930s. Probably better known today for their irons.