Macassar Collection

Hatton Garden
Though Hatton Garden is chiefly associated with the jewelry trade, it is also famous as the location of the warehouse of Rowlands Macassar Oil. Date: 1838

Women's Fashion Feature
Lingerie, topcoats and hairstyles - an eclectic range of women's fashion trends. Date: 1932

Advert, A Rowland and Son, Hatton Garden, London, for Macassar Oil and other products. 1826

Advert for Rowlands Macassar Oil 1890
Rowlands Macassar Oil: - Preserves and strengthens the hair, and is by far the brilliantine for the beard and moustaches; also golden colour

Advert for Rowlands Macassar Oil 1902
Preserves the hair, beautifies the hair, prevents baldness and scurf. 1902

Advertisement for Rowlands Macassar Oil, 1892
An advertisement for Jays of London mourning warehouse, and for Rowlands Macassar Oil, as featured in the Illustrated London News 1892

Rowlands Kalydor advertisement, 1887
An advertisement for Rowlands Kalydor-a most refreshing and emollient preparation for preserving and beautifying the skin

Notes on birds in Macassar
Manuscript notes on the hornbill bird (Buceros cassidix), undated, circa 1856

Womans bedroom
Womans bedroon. A colour scheme of green, with dark furniture in Macassar ebony, showing a bookcase commode with secret jewel safe. The new British furniture, a complete home in the modern manner

Prahu from Macassar

Racial / Indonesia / Celebes
Blowpipe used by an inhabitant of Macassar, south-west Celebes, Indonesia

Game / Tchonka C1840
Chinese ladies of Macassar, Celebes, playing the traditional game of Tchonka

Antimacassar - 2
Woollen antimacassar, intended to protect furniture from the macassar oil widely used as hair dressing. It has become the archetype of Victorian bourgeois taste

Antimacassar - 1
Antimacassar in Gobelin stitch, intended to protect furniture from the macassar oil widely used as hair dressing. It has become the archetypal Victorian symbol

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