Vintage & Contemporary Purse Accessories: Identification & Value Guide

Vintage & Contemporary Purse Accessories is devoted exclusively to lipstick tubes, purse mirrors, and solid perfumes. It includes an extensive list of American and European manufacturers, original vintage ads, patents, historical information, a bibliography, index, and more. Over 800 purse items shown in color. 1997 values. AUTHORBIO: Roselyn Gerson, known as "The Compact Lady" is the founder of the Compact Collectors Culb and editor and publisher of the newsletter, Powder Puff. She is the author of the first book written on ladies' compacts, Ladies' Compacts of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, and Vintage Vanity Bags & Purses, Vintage Ladies' Compacts, Vintage & Contemporary Purse Accessories, Vintage & Vogue Ladies' Compacts, Second Edition, and The Este Lauder Solid Perfume Compact Collection, 1967 to 2001. REVIEW: Women everywhere will especially enjoy this collector's encyclopedia. It includes lipsticks, solid perfume scents, and mirrors. The color photographs show much detail, and each photo includes information on size, year, description, and current collector value.