Nice catch on the antique makeup compact/coin purse. unless someone is making reproductions of an antique and thats what they used for the show, making one of these is going to be expensive and few. I have seen a few of the compact/purse on ebay and almost all of them are between $100 ans $650 because of their age and rarity. I think I am going to go the cigarette case route, I too cant bring myself to tear up an antique just to make my prop more screen accurate.
BTW, I know there is a thread on the Tesla but no new posts in a while. Is there any info on the mini tesla that claidia carries now? I would love to build one of those too.