Duster Collection

Advertising card for Singer Sewing Machines - showing a good patriotic wife using her sewing machine to produce a white ensign for a Royal Naval Seaman husband. Date: circa 1916

1960S Lady & Vacuum
A British housewife poses with Hoover and rag in the centre of her sitting room

Two overcoats and a feather duster, hanging from three hooks behind a bedroom door. Date: 1940s (re-enactment)

Comic postcard, Maid with boots and shoes outside hotel room Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Little girl doing the housework Date: circa 1918

Broom and feather duster seller, Japan
Vintage 19th century photograph: Broom and feather duster seller, Japan

Christmas tree worms and feather duster worm
Christmas tree worm, Spirobranchus giganteus 1 and feather duster worm, Sabella spallanzanii 2, 3. Cymospira gigantea, Anfitrite ventilabro, Anfitrite dello Spallanzani

Nereids
Leodice antennata, Nereidonta antennata 1, and Eunice sanguinea, Nereidonta sanguinea 2. Handcoloured copperplate stipple engraving from Antoine Laurent de Jussieus Dizionario delle Scienze Naturali

Two children in fancy dress; the little boy is dressed as a chef while a little girl makes a very respectable maid or waitress. Date: 1920s

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

Magnificent feather duster, dead mans fingers
Magnificent feather duster, Sabellastarte magnifica 1, dead mans fingers, Alcyonium digitatum 2, and scrupocellaria, Scrupocellaria scruposa 3

Peacock worm, Sabella pavonina, and feather duster worm, Bispira volutacornis. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Friedrich Johann Bertuchs Bilderbuch fur Kinder (Picture Book for Children)

Marceline the clown with the moving statue
Marceline Orbes (1873-1927), better known as Marceline, the globally famous clown, most famous in the late 19th century and early 20th century

Broom vendor, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Broom vendor in a street of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Date: 1922

Feather duster with comic greeting on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

British Hunting Girl - American View - Red Ensign held aloft
Great Britain - Archetype / Personification - American View - Stylish hunting girl with crop, top hat and holding proudly aloft The Red Ensign or " Red Duster"

Small advertisements on satin cloth
Small advertisements printed on a yellow satin cloth duster, including Michelin, Shell, Mobiloil, Overland, Buick, Ford, Wolseley, Harley Davidson, Pommery Champagne, Royal Italian Circus

Advertisement for Felco chain block. 1938

Peter Hugo with a clown
Peter Hugo (Prince Charles lookalike) with a clown. Date: circa 1980s

Stationery, Hadfields Ironmongers, Congleton, Cheshire
O-Cedar Mop and Polish advertisement on Hadfields Ironmongers printed stationery, used here as a receipt with handwritten details. circa 1920

Four clowns on a Christmas and New Year card, performing in the circus ring. Date: circa 1890s

Bell Model 47 crop duster

Bell Model 47B-3, NC142B, crop duster

Bell Model 47B-3 crop duster

Bell Model 47B-3, NC133B, crop duster

Areca Sapida or Feather Duster Palm
Areca Sapida (Rhopalostylis Sapida, Kentia Sapida) or Feather Duster Palm (Nikau Palm), a flowering tree with pink flowers. 1888

Peg-leg peddlar with his tray of items for sale
" Any article on the board a penny" A man wounded in the Boer War, his leg lost resort to life as an itinerant tinker or peddlar, peddling his wares on the street

Izmir, Turkey - The Harbour
A view of the harbour at Izmir (Smyrna), Turkey with boats moored up against the quay

Wrights Wall Brush
A handy wall brush with an oscillating head or duster enabling servants to clean cornices, walls or staircases without trying using a ladder

French Brush Seller
A French Brush seller with a wide variety of brushes for sale from small hand brushes to larger varieties for floors and chimneys

Dusting for Excercise
A smiling young lady in shorts with buttoned falls dusts briskly with a feather duster - a great way to tone up the waist and bust without the need of a gym!

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