Grips Collection

Anne Shirley / Hairdresser
Anne Shirley gets a new hair- do for the film Bombardier. Her blonde hair is curled and held in place with hair grips

Valerie Hobson, actress, on Blend-Rite hair grips card
Valerie Hobson (1917-1998), British film actress, on a Blend-Rite hair grips card. circa 1940s

Advert for William Whiteley, womens underwear 1906
Elegant corset cut very low at the bust and rounded at the hips. 1906

Hand Grips Pliers Date: 1947

Notes relating to Board of Trade Titanic inquiry
RMS Titanic, Captain Maurice Clarke Archive. Typed notes dated 28 April 1912 relating to the Board of Trade enquiry into the Titanic disaster

The first all-decimal shop
Slightly bewildered Croydon lady, getting to grips with Britain's new decimal currency in April 1970, in the first all- Decimal shop in West Croydon

Startling Stories - The Gods Hate Kansas by Joseph J. Millard. A tentacled alien grips a man and woman in its clutches. The man tries to defeat the monster by attacking it with a taser

Advertisement for William Whiteley elegant straight fronted corset. Date: 1906

Scythe Date: 1880

Advert for Whiteleys womens corset 1907
A very elegant straight-fronted corset with front and side suspenders, made of danity silk batiste. Date: 1907

SINGER SEWING IN PACIFIC
Natives of the Caroline Islands quickly get to grips with their Singer sewing machine Date: circa 1900

Sub Machine Gun, Owen, 9 Mm Mk I
Owen Mk I (or I/42) 9 mm sub machine gun, 1943 (c). Wooden butt and bakelite grips. Painted in jungle camouflage. The Owen was an indigenous Australian design developed in 1942

Sub Machine Gun, Austen, 9 Mm Mk I
Australian Austen Mk I 9 mm sub machine gun, 1942-1945 (c); with bakelite grips and camouflaged with green paint. In 1941 Australia possessed no home manufactured sub-machine gun although the Owen

Valerie Cumfy Tip hair grips on a card
Valerie Cumfy Tip hair grips (bob pins) on a card. circa 1950s

Kirbigrip card with hair grips for bobbed and shingled hair. circa 1920s

Foyer Door Handles with Doverite grips in a variety of colours - particularly suitable for cinemas and theatres ! Date: circa 1920s

German table items from the early 16th century.. Chromolithograph from Jakob Heinrich von Hefner-Altenecks Costumes, Artworks and Appliances from the Middle Ages to the 17th Century, Frankfurt, 1889

Webley 455 Mk VI eight-shot double action service revolve
A Webley & Scott, Webley.455 Mark VI eight shot double action service revolver, Serial No. 32104, 6 inch barrel with chequered hard rubber grips. Firearms & Equipment

Old gipsy woman eating cabbage
An old gipsy woman standing in a field, eating cabbage. In her hair can be seen grips and curlers

The Two Rats, Fox & Egg
THE TWO RATS, THE FOX AND THE EGG: To save the egg they ve found from a fox, one rat ingeniously grips the egg, the other drags him to safety by his tail

Gipsy Woman
An old gipsy woman in profile, showing her very long hair, pinned back with slides and grips

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