Antique Pozzoni's Boodle Box Metal Face Powder Tin

Make:  Scovill Manufacturing Company (Waterbury, CT)

Model:  Pozzoni's Boodle Box 

Age: 1915

Construction: Metal

Dimensions:  1/2" Tall x 4" Long x 1 1/2" Wide

Condition:  Excellent pre-owned antique condition. Interior bottom shows very minor corrosion.  Mirror inside lid intact. Please see photos. 

Details:  Oblong white metal box with hinged lid.  Radiant ribbed lid with central lozenge containing scrolls surrounding a shield and "POZZONI'S BOODLE BOX". Interior of lid has decorative fluted fan shapes on either end and original framed mirror in center. Stamped on back just above hinge "PATENTED AUG 10 1915".

Joseph A. Pozzoni, a hairdresser, immigrated to America from England in 1940, settling in New York.  He moved to St Louis in 1858.  He advertised a remedy for balding in both locations.  His Medicated Complexion Powder was first advertised in 1869. After his death in 1886, his wife formed the J. A. Pozzoni Medicated Complexion Powder Manufacturing Company, and this corporation entered into a period of intense growth and advertising.  In 1894, a salesman for Scovill's Manufacturing Co. convinced the executives of Pozzoni's to use a giveaway with their powder, and he designed the Gold Puff Box, which may have marked the beginning of the vanity case industry in the U.S.  In 1912, a Pozzoni employee, Jeane D. Gunder filed a patent for a second Puff Box design exclusively for the J A Pozzoni Pharmacal Company.  In 1915, Gunder designed the Pozzoni Boodle Box, one of America's first double powder and rouge compacts, especially for compressed powder.  Pozzoni's was acquired by  William R. Warner & Co., who produced their powders into the early 1940's.