• Box reads:  "PRICE'S TOILET POWDER ... FRANKLIN PRICE CO. IOWA CITY, IOWA" with a super COLORFUL image of a Victorian-era women holding this compact!

• Condition:   This compact/box is in excellent ALL ORIGINAL condition.   There is NO staining, minimal fading, no breaks, tears, openings, damage, etc.  It is in purely amazing condition considering it is well over a century old.  We found this ourselves as part of a hoard that we saved out the basement of an aging Rexall Drug store.  The old bottles that were found with this were all hand Blown-Into-Mold bottles, dating back to the late 1800 - early 1900 era.   

• Age:    An ORIGINAL ANTIQUE cosmetic container, ca. late 1800 - early 1900  era.

• Shipping: FREE domestic shipping. We DO ship Internationally but we do NOT insure International orders unless buyer specifically requests this and we are able to provide an insurance estimate. If an international shipping charge is much more than the actual shipping cost, we will refund the excess so what YOU pay for shipping/insurance is very close to, if not exactly, the ACTUAL shipping costs! This is important for foreign buyers to know as most of our foreign shipping charges are estimates. We do not falsify information on the Customs Form, such as a price other than what the actual purchase price is, so please do not request us to do so. We ship several times a week and your prompt payment will hasten the turn-around time.

This compact has been in our collection for years; actually decades, ever since we recovered it from the basement of the old Rexall Drug Store here in town, when it shut down back in the 1980's.   We recovered a hoard of antique pharmaceutical and cosmetic bottles, tins, boxes, and paper, from the shelves of this dimly lit basement, it was a sealed time capsule.  It was inside another box which is why it is preserved so well and why it is still sealed.  It was NEVER put out on the shelf for sale, but was part of an inventory that never went to market as the drug store aged and finally closed its doors.   Items like this are  FINITE, you cannot go out and dig them up like old bottles or old coins and only so many have survived the ravages of time.   This one survived over a century of time, and is in amazing condition, check it out!

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