Nail Collection (page 2)

Ouled Nail women, Algeria, circa 1890. Date: circa 1890

Biskra, Algeria, circa 1890 - Street of the Ouled Nail women
Street of the Ouled Nail women, Biskra, Algeria. Date: circa 1890

Advert for Matinee filter tipped cigarettes 1939
These Matinee filter tipped Virginia cigarettes in there slim black case. Date: 1939

An idol from the Congo with nails and knives driven into it
An idol from the Congo with knives and nails driven in to it. The wooden idol, from the region north of the Lower Congo (Chiloango River)

Gibbs Happy Families - Master Chips
Gibbs Happy Families - Miss Tooth the Dentists daughter. 20th century

Mesopotamia. Foundation nails. 3rd Millenium BC. Bronze. Iraq British Museum. London. England. Kingdom

Jesus showing sores with Virgin Mary and Saint John and two
Doctrine Chretienne. Manuscript. France. 13th century. Miniature depicting Jesus sitting, showing sores. Beside him, the Virgin Mary

Foot case for a mummy. Roman Period. 1st century AD
Foot case for a mummy. Gilded feet with sandals and a checker pattern depicting basketwork. Linen with plaster, painted and gilded. Roman Period. 1st century AD

Fragments from colossal emperor statues of Trajan and Hadria
Roman Art. Asia Minor. Turkey. Fragments from colossal emperor statues of Trajan and Hadrian. Hand. Marble. It comes from Trajaneum (Pergamon), 114-138 A.D. Pergamon Museum. Berlin. Germany

Right forearm belonging to a bronze statue of a woman. 3rd-1
Greek Art. 3rd-1st century BCE. Right forearm belonging to a bronze statue of a woman. Archaeological Museum of Olympia. Greece

Mill and wheel on a cutout birthday card with rustic border and verse. Date: circa 1890s

Mill and wheel on a cutout New Year card with rustic border and seasonal verse. Date: circa 1890s

Nail Varnish 1940S
Always buy the smallest possible bottle of nail varnish, beacause it does not keep well. A young woman lovingly applies varnish to her lovely fingernails. Date: early 1940s

ASCOT PARTY GAME
Playing Ascot at a Christmas party. The horses have to cut down the centre of a piece of tape with curved nail scissors, the winner being the one to pass the post first! Date: 1930s

Peeling Potatoes 1940S
A housewife with painted red fingernails peels potatoes into an enamel bowl in the kitchen sink. Date: 1940s (re-enactment)

Addressing a Parcel
If you have occasion to write an address on a parcel, it will prove much easier and less prone to error if it is written in pencil first. Date: 1940s

Strikers Stop Train
The wives & children of strikers at the Cummings Nail Mills in Chicago stop a train as a protest. Date: 1886

Boy and girl attaching New Year greeting to a tree
Boy and girl in historical costume attaching a New Year greeting to a tree. Date: circa 1890s

Boy and girl attaching Christmas greeting to a tree
Boy and girl in historical costume attaching a Christmas greeting to a tree. Date: circa 1890s

Van Louis McDaniel, Miss Arkansas 1948
Van Louis McDaniel (1929-1987) of Forrest City, Miss Arkansas for 1948. Date: 1948

WW2 Christmas card, Whats the use of worrying -- dog in khaki uniform. Date: 1941

RIBERA, Jos頨1588-1652). Piet஠1637. Baroque art
RIBERA, Jos頨 1588-1652). Piet஠ 1637. Baroque art. Oil on canvas. ITALY. CAMPANIA. Naples. Carthusian Monastery of San Martino

Favourite Sayings - Mind your own business
Black and white lantern slide of a man sitting at a dinner table looking at his finger while a woman stands and gestures with her hand.. Part of Box 197 Sayings, Boswell Collection

Paris, France - Notre-Dame. Date: 19th century

Advert for John Pound & Co dressing case 1914
Advertisement John Pound & Co dressing cases. John Pound became Lord Mayor of London in 1904. With less time to run his business, he gave contol of the company to his two sons

Advert by Asprey compact dressing case 1937
Cases for light weight travel complete and compact. Date: 1937

Advert for Galaof London lip and nail colours 1950
Advert for Gala of London lip and nail colours for " every fashion shade". Date: 1950

False Nails
Rather clumsy clip-on false nails! Date: early 1930s

Bejewelled Nail Covers
A model shows off her bejewelled nail cover talons, similar to the type worn by traditional dancers in Bali. Date: early 1930s

Advertisement for Batchelors Peas
The Pick of the Crop. Advertisement for Batchelors Peas - " Its the flavour thats in favour". Date: 1930s

Girl of the Ouled Nails - Algeria - North Africa
Woman from the tribe of Ouled Nail in Southern Algeria in their very distinctive and elaborate traditional clothing. The women earned money through belly dancing

Nail trimmers, scissors, pen knives & buffing block, from thes Maw & Sons catalogue Date: 1903

Silhouette, To Hit the Nail on the Head
To Hit the Nail on the Head -- silhouette showing three children watching their father hammer a nail into the wall

Twelve proverbial silhouettes given a literal depiction: the fat is in the fire, to have a finger in the pie, sending coals to Newcastle, one sows and another reaps

Advert for Mappin & Webb compact dressing case 1937
Advertisement for Mappin & Webb compact dressing cases: Including Ladys Morocco leather dressing case, containing a lift out tray

Varnishing Nails
Nail varnish should be applied very carefully, with a small brush, first horizontally from left to right, then vertically from the fingertips downwards. Do not smear the varnish! Date: 1930s

Vivid Varnish

HAND CARE
A stylish model rubs lotion into her lovely hands to keep them soft and supple. Date: early 1940s

Chalking Nails
A white chalk pencil applied to the nails gives a pleasing appearance to the fingertips! Date: 1930s

Lovely Hands and Nails
The attraction of lovely hands and varnished fingernails. Date: 1930s

Flattered Model
Head and shoulders portrait of a woman in a plain blouse looking rather flattered. Date: late 1960s

The Divinity that Shapes our Ends by Lindsay Cable
A rather tranquil scene showing a man having his nails manicured by a pretty beautician. Date: 1930

David Wright woman in black underwear
Elegant woman with red hair, wearing black underwear. She appears to be sitting up in bed, with a dark green cover in front of her

David Wright woman in black hooded coat
Elegant woman in a black hooded coat, with a red bow at her neck and red nail polish to match. David Wright (1912 - 1967), was a popular British artist specialising in glamour

Women of the Ouled-Nails resting, Algeria
Women of the Ouled-Nails resting and drinking tea. Women from the tribe of Ouled Nail in Southern Algeria in their very distinctive and elaborate traditional clothing

Biskra - Street of Ouled Nails
The houses of the Ouled Nails, Biskra, Algeria. The women of the Ouled-Nails earned money through belly dancing. The women are heavily made-up, going unveiled at all times and wear their hair up

The houses of the Ouled Nails, Algeria
The houses of the Ouled Nails, Biskra, Algeria. The women of the Ouled-Nails earned money through belly dancing. The women are heavily made-up, going unveiled at all times and wear their hair up

Ouled-Nahils, Algeria - Southern Algerian Woman
Woman from the tribe of Ouled Nail in Southern Algeria in their very distinctive and elaborate traditional clothing. The women earned money through belly dancing

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