Bristles Collection

Toothbrushes (Adverts)
Toothbrushes and Combs

Mappin & Webbs dressing table services. Date: 1932

Itinerant seller of brushes and racquets, un brossetier, 18th century. He carries a brush with bone handle 1, Dutch clothes brush 2, ordinary clothes brush 3, hat brush 4, paintbrush 5

Tabby kitten and sweeping brush
Unusual Friends - tabby kitten and sweeping brush. 1950s

Greetings card in the shape of a dustpan and brush with a picture of a housemaid and her suitor. Date: circa 1890s

Comic postcard, Man with hangover mistakes his hairbrush for a mirror Date: 20th century

Advert for Hindes hair brushes 1923
The very brush for the hair. " Just the very thing" is an expression in every-day use a commonplace in the English language

Christmas card in the shape of a brush. Date: circa 1890s

WW2 poster, Bristles are scarce, Brushes are precious
WW2 Ministry of Supply poster, Bristles are scarce, Brushes are precious. Encouraging people to take care of resources. Date: early 1940s

Making Ivory Brushes
A man in a flat cap, boring small holes into an ivory hairbrush handle for the bristles. Date: February 1933

The Brush Maker
Brushmaking - drawing bristles into stock with wire, Leicestershire, England. Date: 1930s

Brush Making
Young brushmakers knotting bristles after dipping them in pitch, Leicestershire, England. Date: 1950s

Hair Brush Sets on sale at Mappin & Webb

Making Brushes 1930S
These women are fixing bristles into ivory hairbrush handles. Date: February 1933

Making Shaving Brushes
Two women washing and sterilising bristles, an important part of the dressing and preparation of badger hair for the manufacture of shaving brushes. Date: 1 March 1933

Armoured Train at Samara
CIVIL WAR Heavily armed troops on board a red army armoured train at Samara

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