COLLECTORS! RARE FIND!
NEAR FULL SPRING LOADED MIRRORED LIPSTICK COMPACT, place for a monogram to be engraved ( not engraved )
MAKER: Stratton
CONDITION: Very Good Vintage, Perfect working order, no dings or sents, but minor age wear to lipstick tube
MIRROR: Perfect
AGE: 1950s
MATERIAL: Goldtone
LIPSTICK: Colour: Capistrano Pink, nearly full, prehaps used only once! Clean, smudged on top.
DATING Stratton COMPACTS by BACK PATTERNS & SHAPES
BACKS
Wavy - early 20th century
Spiral- 1930s- pre WW 2
Lines - 1950s
Curly feather - 1950s 'Luxury compacts'
All over stars - no writing - mid 1950-60s
All over stars with writing '' Stratton'' - mid 1960s to early 1970s
All over dots with writing '' Stratton'' - mid 1970s to late 1980s
Woven effect with writing '' Stratton'' - 1990s
SHAPE
Small round ''Strattnoids''- early 20th century
Meduim round ''Flapjacks'' aprox 3 inches x 3 inches-1930s- pre WW 2
Square '' Pontoon''- 1950s
QUEENS-Patterned edge ( pie crust -like)
''Queen''- smaller and not convertable -1957-58 RARE
'' Queen''- medium convertable- since 1950s and on for 40 years ( 1990s) COMMON
Stratton Spring Loaded Mirrored 'FULL' Lipstick Compact
VINTAGE ITEMS
These items are true vintage and therefore, their condition is 'used' and will have the signs of aging or be imperfect. We will try to describe as much as possible in the product discription of each item. However these cannot be returned or exchanged as they are of 'used condition' and irreplaceable.