A small round red powder compact with gold decorative borders rests on the pages of an open antique book. The scene is styled with other old books, a gold feather ornament, and a dark red fabric background.

Vintage La Jaynees Powder Compact, Vermillion Red Ribbed Enamel, Art Deco Foliate Border, Rawleigh's Freeport Illinois, Original Puff, Fish-Scale Sifter, Mid-Century American

£66.00
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A small round red powder compact with gold decorative borders rests on the pages of an open antique book. The scene is styled with other old books, a gold feather ornament, and a dark red fabric background.
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  • Vintage La Jaynees Powder Compact, Vermillion Red Ribbed Enamel, Art Deco Foliate Border, Rawleigh's Freeport Illinois, Original Puff, Fish-Scale Sifter, Mid-Century American
  • Vintage La Jaynees Powder Compact, Vermillion Red Ribbed Enamel, Art Deco Foliate Border, Rawleigh's Freeport Illinois, Original Puff, Fish-Scale Sifter, Mid-Century American
  • Vintage La Jaynees Powder Compact, Vermillion Red Ribbed Enamel, Art Deco Foliate Border, Rawleigh's Freeport Illinois, Original Puff, Fish-Scale Sifter, Mid-Century American
  • Vintage La Jaynees Powder Compact, Vermillion Red Ribbed Enamel, Art Deco Foliate Border, Rawleigh's Freeport Illinois, Original Puff, Fish-Scale Sifter, Mid-Century American
  • A small round red powder compact with gold decorative borders rests on the pages of an open antique book. The scene is styled with other old books, a gold feather ornament, and a dark red fabric background.
  • A round gold-toned compact mirror with a red base sits on the pages of an open vintage book, surrounded by old books and decorative gold leaf on a dark red surface.
  • An open vintage book with printed text and an illustration, styled with a gold-toned compact on the page, alongside old books and decorative objects on a red surface.
  • An open vintage-style book with printed text and an illustration, styled with an ornate gold compact mirror and pink circular makeup pans resting on the pages, alongside stacked antique books and decorative gold accents on a deep red surface.
  • Vintage La Jaynees Powder Compact, Vermillion Red Ribbed Enamel, Art Deco Foliate Border, Rawleigh's Freeport Illinois, Original Puff, Fish-Scale Sifter, Mid-Century American
  • Vintage La Jaynees Powder Compact, Vermillion Red Ribbed Enamel, Art Deco Foliate Border, Rawleigh's Freeport Illinois, Original Puff, Fish-Scale Sifter, Mid-Century American
  • Vintage La Jaynees Powder Compact, Vermillion Red Ribbed Enamel, Art Deco Foliate Border, Rawleigh's Freeport Illinois, Original Puff, Fish-Scale Sifter, Mid-Century American
  • Vintage La Jaynees Powder Compact, Vermillion Red Ribbed Enamel, Art Deco Foliate Border, Rawleigh's Freeport Illinois, Original Puff, Fish-Scale Sifter, Mid-Century American
  • Vintage La Jaynees Powder Compact, Vermillion Red Ribbed Enamel, Art Deco Foliate Border, Rawleigh's Freeport Illinois, Original Puff, Fish-Scale Sifter, Mid-Century American
  • Vintage La Jaynees Powder Compact, Vermillion Red Ribbed Enamel, Art Deco Foliate Border, Rawleigh's Freeport Illinois, Original Puff, Fish-Scale Sifter, Mid-Century American
  • Vintage La Jaynees Powder Compact, Vermillion Red Ribbed Enamel, Art Deco Foliate Border, Rawleigh's Freeport Illinois, Original Puff, Fish-Scale Sifter, Mid-Century American
Vintage La Jaynees Powder Compact, Vermillion Red Ribbed Enamel, Art Deco Foliate Border, Rawleigh's Freeport Illinois, Original Puff, Fish-Scale Sifter, Mid-Century American

Vintage La Jaynees Powder Compact, Vermillion Red Ribbed Enamel, Art Deco Foliate Border, Rawleigh's Freeport Illinois, Original Puff, Fish-Scale Sifter, Mid-Century American

£66.00
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Description

Door-to-door. Freeport, Illinois. A compact you had to know someone to buy.

La Jaynees was a cosmetics sub-brand of the W.T. Rawleigh Company of Freeport, Illinois: a direct-sales operation that sent representatives door to door across mid-century America, selling household products, remedies, and personal care lines to customers who bought by relationship rather than by shop. La Jaynees compacts were part of that world. You did not find them on a counter. Someone brought this to your door.

The compact is circular, large, and vivid: a flame vermillion red lacquered enamel exterior carrying bold parallel vertical ribbing across the entire face, the ribs deep and evenly spaced in a strong Art Deco linear pattern. Around the circumference runs a continuous raised foliate border, small botanical motifs repeating in a band at the rim. The La Jaynees name is embossed in italic serif script within a raised cartouche tablet at centre, flanked by two diagonal bars. The red enamel shows wear at the raised edges of the ribs, the gold-tone substrate visible at the high points across the face, noted and shown in the photos.

The interior is lined in deep cerise fabric and holds the original accessories: a warm gold-tone pressed metal sifter disc carrying an all-over fish-scale guilloche pattern of notable density and quality, and the original powder puff, a blush pink woven fabric disc with a crimped white chiffon frill border stitched in cerise running stitch and a small red ribbon pull tab. The inner rim carries the stamp: Rawleigh's / FREEPORT, ILL. The double-barrel hinge is clean and tight.

The Particulars:

  • Brand: La Jaynees by W.T. Rawleigh Company; Rawleigh's / Freeport, Ill. stamp to inner rim
  • Form: Large circular powder compact
  • Exterior: Vermillion red lacquered enamel with bold vertical ribbing; raised foliate border to rim; La Jaynees cartouche embossed to face; enamel wear to rib edges noted and shown
  • Interior: Deep cerise fabric lining; gold-tone fish-scale guilloche sifter disc; original blush pink puff with white chiffon frill and red ribbon pull tab; double-barrel hinge
  • Included: Original powder puff, original sifter
  • Not included: Slip, outer box
  • Condition: Good. Enamel wear to raised rib edges, gold-tone substrate visible at high points. Interior accessories original and intact. Please review all photos carefully before purchasing.
  • Origin: American, W.T. Rawleigh Company, Freeport, Illinois
  • Period: Mid-century, 1940s-1950s

Rawleigh's sold it. Someone's representative brought it to a door. It ended up here.

Arrives tucked inside its own treasure coffin and carefully wrapped as a vault relic, ready for gifting or keeping.

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