💄✨ Vintage Foster Compact – Made in USA – Black & Gold Art Deco Style ✨💄
Fresh from a recent estate treasure hunt and now cleared for release back into the wild comes this elegant vintage Foster compact, proudly marked Made in USA.
Featuring a striking black enamel-style exterior accented by gold-tone geometric detailing, this compact captures the glamour and sophistication of mid-century fashion.
Open it up and you'll find the original mirror and cosmetic compartments still present—a wonderful glimpse into a time when a lady never left home without her compact.
💄 Vintage Foster Compact
🇺🇸 Made in USA
✨ Elegant Black & Gold Design
🪞 Interior Mirror Present
🎨 Original Cosmetic Compartments Present
🏛️ Mid-Century Vanity Collectible
📦 Compact Model 788
Vintage pre-owned condition.
Compact opens and closes properly.
Mirror remains present.
Original cosmetic pans remain as shown.
Expected signs of age, handling, and storage wear consistent with a vintage vanity accessory.
Please carefully review all photographs for exact condition and measurements.
Before smartphones...
Before social media...
Before people carried their entire lives in a purse...
A proper compact was essential equipment.
Lipstick?
Check.
Powder?
Check.
Mirror for judging everyone else's life choices?
Absolutely.
This compact likely accompanied its original owner to dinners, dances, church socials, department stores, and probably a few pieces of gossip that never should have left the beauty parlor.
✔️ Beautiful display piece
✔️ Excellent vanity collectible
✔️ Mid-century design aesthetic
✔️ Original mirror and cosmetics present
✔️ Made in USA collectible
✔️ Wonderful gift for vintage fashion lovers
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📜 Secret keeper of tiny treasures
During the 1940s through 1960s, decorative compacts were often given as gifts, collected as fashion accessories, and proudly displayed alongside perfumes and vanity sets. Today many collectors focus exclusively on American-made compacts because of their craftsmanship and distinctive designs.
🦩 From the Flamingo Fulfillment Center
Ethel, Fred, Lucy, and the flock spend their days rescuing treasures from estates, attics, barns, cupboards, and occasionally places that require a tetanus booster and a flashlight.
Be sure to visit our eBay store @CDAventura where new treasures arrive daily and are promptly released back into the wild.
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