Here's something that has been bugging me for a while so I thought i'd throw it into thr ring. In post war years how would a women treat her compact?
Would they be items of value to be re used time and again or the more throw away items you have today?
If the former then it makes it less likely that the compact was discarded on purpose by a female travelling through the island. Yes lost but not necesserily discarded.
Also if say it was dropped and damaged, say the mirror broke the former would make it more likly that they would keep it so that a new mirror could be found and also the chance of getting a whole new compact i the area would be slim and the lady needs to kep up appearences.