A Skyscraper ten piece Vanity set
A Louis W. Rice eight-piece electro-plated nickel silver Skyscraper vanity set
Apollo Studios, New York, circa 1930
comprising a hand mirror, brush, comb, perfume bottle, nail buffer, a covered box with amber glass base, a shoe horn and a button hook, each monogrammed CHH and most impressed with firm's mark (except the comb) and some numbered 3152 or 3150
length of hand mirror 14 3/4in (37.5cm); length of box 8 3/4in (22.3cm)
Sold for US$ 937 inc. premium

Footnotes

  • Literature:
    Richard Guy Wilson, Dianne H. Pilgrim and Dickran Tashjian, The Machine Age in America 1918-1941, New York, 1986, p. 387 for an illustration of a mirror and brush

Category: Decorative Arts / 20th Century Decorative Arts


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