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Marlene Dietrich Personally Owned Makeup Compact -- The Coveted ''Bird in Hand'' Compact by Elgin Am

Currency:USD Category:Memorabilia / Movie - Memorabilia Start Price:5,000.00 USD Estimated At:5,000.00 - 7,500.00 USD
Marlene Dietrich Personally Owned Makeup Compact -- The Coveted ''Bird in Hand'' Compact by Elgin Am

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Auction Date:2014 May 29 @ 17:00 (UTC-7 : PDT/MST)
Location:11901 Santa Monica Blvd., Los Angeles, California, 90025, United States
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Marlene Dietrich's own ''Bird in Hand'' makeup compact. Brass compact features textured winds with gold painted tips and red enamel eyes. It opens to a mirror and unused pouf made of soft real feathers, with additional hinged compartment for pressed powder. A lipstick tube emerges from behind the bird's head and the tail opens as a pillbox compartment. The name ''Dali'' is engraved and painted in black under the bird's neck on the base of the lipstick tube, but no documentation exists to suggest Salvadore Dali designed the bird, rather Ellison Irelan, Carl Fritz and Mortimer Vogelman are credited with the design. Compact dates to 1951. Measures 4.5'' from beak to tail and 2.75'' across. Weighs 5 ounces. Void of make-up. Some rubbing and scratching to finish, else near fine. From the estate of Marlene Dietrich.