GEORG JENSEN:  New York division.  Georg Jensen was a very famous Scandanavian silversmith.

GIREY:  United States.  Manufacturing compacts somewhere betwen the 1930s and the 1950s.  Famous for their "camera" compacts.

GLORIA VANDERBILT:  Not the Gloria Vanderbilt of jeans fame.  This was Mrs. Reginald Vanderbilt - nee Gloria Morgan.  Opened a NY salon from July 1946 until October 1947.  Mainly a parfumerie.

GUCCI:  Well known name in fashion.  Producing contemporary compacts.

GWENDA:  Gwenda was the trademark of Hussey-Dawson of Birmingham, England.  Began manufacturing compacts circa 1930.  Famous for their butterfly wing and foil compacts.  At the time they were made, they were actually lower end compacts.  Now, very collectible and rather high end.  I was told by a British customer that the old Gwenda manufacturing plant is now being turned into an office building.

HALSTON:  Well known name in fashion.  Contemporary compacts.

HARRIET HUBBARD AYER:  New York.  Trademark name registered by Vincent B. Thomas in 1907 for his cosmetics.  The original Harriet Hubbard Ayer was a woman who manufactured Lady Recamier's Facial Creme in the late 1800s and also wrote a popular beauty advice column.  HHA was in business at least through the 1950s.

HATTIE CARNEGIE:  American costume jewelry manufacturer.  Probably did a limited range of compact designs sometime in the 1940s or 1950s.

HELENA RUBENSTEIN:  American cosmetics house.  Probably began mass producing affordable compacts sometime in the 1940s.

HENRIETTE:  Tradename for the New York division of the Wadsworth Case Co of Kentucky.  Manufactured compacts during the 1940s and 1950s.  Famous for their novelty compacts such as the 8-ball compact.

HINGCO-VANITIES INC:  United States.  Manufactured compacts sometime betwen the 1930s and the 1950s.

HOBE:  American costume jewelry manufacturer.  Probably had limited number of compact designs sometime in the 1940s to 1950s.

HOUBIGANT:  France.  Famous perfume house.  Exporting compacts as early as the 1920s.

INNOXA:  England.  Manufacturing compacts as early as the 1930s.

JAY STRONGWATER:  Contemporary compacts.  Often figurals encrusted with crystals.  High end.

JM FISHER CO:  Attleboro, Mass. United States.  Manufacturing compacts as early as the 1920s.  Very Art Deco and Art Moderne case design.  Very vivid colors.  Each design had a name.  Fragile enamels.  Rarity may increase as the enamels deteriorate.  Very collectible.

JONTEEL:  Cosmetics house.  Probably began mass producing affordable compacts in the 1940s.

KATHERINE BAUMANN:  Contemporary compacts.

KIGU:  The first Kigu compact was created by Gustav Kiashek, a second generation master silver and goldsmith from Hungary.  By the early 1920s, he had a factory in Budapest to produce these compacts under his firm's tradename - Kigu.  The name Kigu was derived by KI-ashek, GU-stav.  His son George came to England in 1939.  The Kigu Co. was established by George Kiashek in Great Britain in 1947.  Advertised their product as "compacts of character".  Excellent compacts - beautiful, well engineered with quality materials.  Made their very collectible "flying saucer" compact in 1951.  Stopped making compacts in the late 1950s and manufactured costume jewelry.  Taken over by the AS Brown Co. (Mascot) in 1977 on the death of Mr Kiashek. 

K & K:  United States.  Kotler & Kopet.  Manufactured compacts sometime during the 1930s to the 1950s.

KLIX:  Klix is the trademark of D. Harris & Co. of Great Britain.  Began manufacturing in the 1950s.  Famous for their transparent plastic compacts with simple print on lid.

LADY ESTHER:  American cosmetics house.  Another company that probably began mass producing affordable compacts in the 1940s.

LADY VANITY:  Trademark of Annette Honeywell, artist and designer in the 1950s.

LA MODE:  United States.  Ripley & Gowan Co.  Manufacturing compacts as early as the 1930s.

LE RAGE:  Great Britain.   A division of the Evans Components Co.  Manufactured compacts only during the early 1950s.

LILLY DACHE:  Designer who was commissioned by cosmetic houses to design compact cases.

LUCIEN LELONG:  Paris.  Cosmetics house.

LUCRETIA VANDERBILT:   No definitive info.