What is this peachy pearly lucite (?) article?

[TexasAda]

I've had this little plastic cylinder for quite a few years. Got it at an estate sale and I have never known what it is but it's pretty neat. It's almost as big as a 12 oz. can of Coke, but the Coke won't fit into it. It has a flat disk of a lid with what looks like a glue spot where something must have been attached in the past, as a knob or handle for the lid.

The arched handle on the body swivels on goldtone metal rings.

The plastic is VERY pearly. There is no lettering on it.

I truly don't know what it is. Maybe a little girl's purse? Some kind of vanity/boudoir/bathroom item? Certainly not a food storage item?

Have gotten to the point of being ready to clear it out but would like to list it as whatever it really is!

[bykimbo]

I don't have the least idea, but if I say so it will get bumped and somebody better informed might wander in.

[meebo1]

It might well have been designed for tins. and then they changed the shape of the tins ever so slightly. I had bought a couple of plastic covers with lids to fit the tins so you don't have to drink it all in one go, well the tins now don't fit any more

[olivia8143]

I haven't a clue either but it looks cute.

[TexasAda]

Thank you, Kimbo, Meebo and Olivia, for your answers. I don't think it's to store a partially-drunk soft drink can because the lid is very loose. It just sits loosely into an inner rim of the main container.

Mankind has invented many artifacts; maybe this is a branch of the evolutionary tree that ended and didn't become well known. It does seem to have very few, or no scratches. Maybe it was a prototype from a factory and a worker or the inventor kept it through the years as a souvenir.

I would just hate to get rid of it and THEN discover what it is! But I must be strong in my resolve to clean out the place...