Vanity mirror

A vanity mirror comprising:

• a body base member having a mirror;
• an illumination member detachably mounted to said body base member which includes a lens plate and an elongate lamp tube for illuminating the mirror through the lens plate, said lamp tube having one and another terminal ends between which electrical current may pass to illuminate the lamp;
• a cover plate hinged to said body base member so as to be hingedly moveable between an open condition wherein the mirror is exposed and a closed condition wherein the mirror is covered;
• a switch mechanism responsive to movement of the cover plate between said closed and opened conditions;
• wherein
• said illumination member includes:
• (i) a planar base plate having a pair of spaced-apart base contact terminals adapted to being connected to lamp circuit leads through which electrical current may be supplied to the lamp tube;
• (ii) said lamp tube being positioned on an upper side of said base plate and having said one terminal end thereof soldered to one of said base contact terminals;
• (iii) a contact piece being positioned on said upper side of said base plate and having an end thereof soldered to said other terminal end of said lamp member, said contact piece being operably associated with said switch mechanism so as to make and break an electrical circuit with the other of said base contact terminals in response to said cover being moved into said opened and closed conditions to turn said lamp tube on and off, respectively, and thereby illuminate the mirror, and wherein
• said body base member includes a pair of body contact terminals each contacting a respective one said base contact terminals when said illumination unit is detachably mounted to said body base member.