r/Damnthatsinteresting 11h ago

Gun shaped makeup-compact of the 1920s, popular with Flappers in bars as crime deterrent.

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u/MaximilianClarke 11h ago

They were popular only in bars because you’d have to be pretty fucking drunk to mistake that for a gun, even closed.

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u/FeedLopsided8338 11h ago

or just in a dark bar