Vivid! Vintage face powder box. La Jaynees by Raleigh’s. 1928. This brilliant powder box is the original 1928 design. It is in great vintage condition, w/vibrant colors & a satiny gloss. Backdrop colors are contrasting red & black, separated by embossed satin gold. Gold embossing also outlines blue, white & yellow flowers, & lovely butterflies. One side has a smudged place, & there is some surface rubbing along edges. Bottom shows dinge & a scuff. Inside is clean w/seal in place, w/only a small tear. (See photos for specifics). 3” diameter x 1.5” deep.
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La Jaynees’ was introduced in 1928 and would prove to be Rawleigh’s most long-lived toiletries brand and was manufactured into the 1960s.
This beautiful powder box is the original 1928 design. There is no puff inside, just a faint smell of powder in the felt lining. It is in great shape, the surface wear, paper loss is visible in the pictures.
The butterflies and flowers are gorgeous, more Art Nouveau than Art Deco in design. The box stands 1 & 3/8" high and in 3" diameter.
A sturdy and fabulous display piece for your vanity, it could hold your trinkets with ease.
What follows below is just a little background information on the company, found at the Collecting Vintage Compacts Blogspot. If you have time, visit the site, this history is a very good read!
The W.T. Rawleigh Company of Freeport Illinois, best known for its range of ‘Good Health Products’, was also drawn to the expanding cosmetics market in the first decades of the Twentieth Century.
How a company that sold sewing machine oil, cough syrup, mustard, chewing gum and hog mixture, among many other products, also came to sell cosmetics is a story worth telling. As with most remarkable stories, behind this one there was a remarkable man.
William Thomas Rawleigh was born on a farm, near Mineral Point, Wisconsin, on 3 December 1870. The eldest of ten children it was clear from an early age that his future would not be in farming.
His first notable achievement was at the age of fifteen when, reportedly, he sold ink to his schoolmates. What was notable was that he not only made the ink himself but he also bottled and labeled it. He quickly expanded his range of products.
Just a few years later, the demand for his products was such that he established premises in Freeport, IL to both make and store goods for sale. Just like J.R. Watkins and Avon and later the Zanol Corporation, it was the salesmen and women who arrived on the front doors of tens of thousands of homes each year who were so important to Rawleigh’s eventual prosperity.
The first successful toilet good came in 1912.