Silver Compact Mirror 1940s Sweet Heart Powder Compact Refillable All Loose Face Powder solid gold bracelets This Stratton Mini-Convertible compact is

This Stratton Mini-Convertible compact is suitable for use as a handbag mirror with all loose foundation and pressed foundation powder pans measuring 59 - 67 mm diameter

This base design cross referenced with the known years of availability for this model dates this Stratton Petite to having been made between 1960-1964

Then the most gorgeous green enamel tree set off by the vivid yellow enamel and above red enamel adorned with silver stars

(Stratton brand)

In this year the company moved into what had become the International Shoe Building

Silver Compact Mirror 1940s Sweet Heart Powder Compact Refillable All Loose Face Powder solid gold bracelets This Stratton Mini-Convertible compact isA silver compact mirror made in the 1940s. These accessories were created as souvenirs for the Allied servicemen stationed in the Middle East. Local silversmiths were supplying the need for love tokens that would be taken home by the Allied soldiers and airmen to give to wives and girlfriends. They proved to be very popular. This well crafted solid silver powder is decorated with a typical Arabian scene. In the foreground palm trees and a dhow in full