A friend came over last night and was asking about this Evans compact which I won off ebay for just under $14 which reminded me it hadn't made an appearance on my blog. Evans became of the pronounced manufacturers of very early powder compacts. During the 1920s and 1930s they produced countless coloured advertisements of their variety of the new in thing for every lady to have when it came to powder and her beauty regime. Their 1930s range can be easy to spot by several key features. Firstly they are often very small, have a guilloche design upon the top and have a meshed bottom. This meshed bottom hangs separate to the white lining of the powder pan. This added mesh detailing adds an extra level of glamour, a shimmer and sense of moment for the 1930s lady.
However a lot of these compacts often end up as assumed Evans products due to few of these compacts actually having any brand markings upon the actual casing. The only reference produced is the tiny circular puff, which luckily this compact still has. While there's a couple of marks around the edges both on the top and the bottom, for entering it's 8th decade it's fairing pretty well and is now one of the oldest compacts in my collection. I can only hope I can say the same about myself if I see that age.