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This collection comprises an assortment of vintage and antique vanity items, hair ornaments, and decorative collectibles. The lot includes silver-tone dressing table accessories such as an embossed hairbrush, clothes brush, and a hand mirror frame featuring scrolling foliate and Art Nouveau-style floral motifs. There are mid-century vanity brushes with embroidered or floral-printed backs, including one showing a bouquet of roses. A rectangular gold-tone engine-turned compact or cigarette case is present, opening to reveal a mirrored interior. The hair accessories include a large silver-tone comb with a butterfly design encrusted with clear rhinestones, a gold-tone tiara set with clear paste stones, and numerous vintage barrettes and clips embellished with faux pearls, red and clear rhinestones, and enameled details. Additional items include a tortoiseshell-effect plastic hair comb, a decorative comb with a floral spine, and a traditional folding paper fan with bamboo sticks featuring a printed cherry blossom and bird design with a red circular mark. Other collectibles include a small pink enameled miniature handbag-form trinket box on a gold-tone chain, a silver-tone lipstick case, a leather-cased set of folding metal nail clippers, and a gold-tone frame fitted with a modern circular watch head marked QUARTZ at the six o’clock position. The materials include silver plate, gold and silver-tone base metals, celluloid, plastics, paper, bamboo, enamel, rhinestones, and faux pearls.
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