Item Reference: 008261
Category: Personal Accessories (Ladies Hair)
Format: Artefact
Description: Gold coloured fine mesh hairnet/sleepnet made from synthetic material (nylon). Mesh is made in chain-stitch style threads.
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Item Reference: 008262
Category: Personal Accessories (Ladies Hair)
Format: Artefact
Description: Metal-framed dressing table hair brush. 270mm long. Head 110mm x 80mm,with ribbed pattern handle, 160mm long. Starburst pattern on back of brush. Nylon bristles set in a wooden inset in head. Made in England.
Date: 1950s/60s
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Item Reference: 008263
Category: Personal Accessories (Ladies Hair)
Format: Artefact
Description: Marcel 8, metal curling tongs, 260mm long, crimping section 120mm.
Date: 1920s
Further Information: Marcel tongs were named after Marcel Grateau, a French hairdresser who, in 1872, invented the first heated curling iron using a metal rod heated over an open flame.
Links: History
Item Reference: 008264
Category: Personal Accessories (Ladies Hair)
Format: Artefact
Description: 8 assorted hat pins. 3 x 200mm long with black beads on ends; 1 x 150mm long with black bead; 1 x 205mm long with blue bead; 1 x 170mm long with multicoloured ceramic bead; 1 x 150mm long with ‘pearl’ bead; 1 x 155mm long with black plastic decoration on end. Plastic box, 103 x 40 x 40mm containing 64 medium and assorted small pins.
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Further Information: Hat pins became less popular in the 1920s when bobbed hair and smaller hats became the fashion.
Links: http://www.americanhatpinsociety.com
B6_008265 Afro Comb
Item Reference: 008265
Category: Personal Accessories (Ladies Hair)
Format: Artefact
Description: Plastic Afro comb, stamped with ‘Professional Hair care System’ and a capital S.
70mm wide, teeth are 55mm long. Handle is shaped to fit fingers.
Date: 1970s/80s
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Item Reference: 008266
Category: Personal Accessories (Ladies Hair)
Format: Artefact
Description:
1 x circular hair comb made of plastic with a faux tortoiseshell design Designed to secure buns or ponytails.60mm diameter; 1 x small brown, plastic Alice band; 3 x semi circular plastic hairband with inner toothed band for holding hair in place, 120mm diameter; 1 x Victorian style light brown, plastic, two pronged bun comb, 120mm long; 1 x brown plastic curved hair slide; 1 x curved metal hair grip, 110mm long.
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B6_008267 Hair Brush (plastic)
Item Reference: 008267
Category: Personal Accessories (Ladies Hair)
Format: Artefact
Description: Grey plastic folding comb and hairbrush. Closed dimensions, 110 x 30 x 20mm. Brush has 3 rows of teeth. Back is shaped like back bone of a fish.
Date: c. 1950s
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Item Reference: 008269
Category: Personal Accessories (Ladies Hair)
Format: Artefact
Description: Blue collar cape for haircutting. Main section made of thin plastic with 450mm outer edging of thicker plastic. White plastic edging and ties.
Date: 1970s
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Item Reference: 008270
Category: Personal Accessories (Ladies Hair)
Format: Artefact
Description: Brown, plastic, comb stamped with ‘Made in Gt. Britain, KENT of London, Hand finished R17T’. Designed for Affro or bouffant hair styles. 160mm long, 60mm wide. Teeth 60mm long.
Date: 1970s
Further Information: ‘With over 230 years of experience Kent combs and brushes are still made in England. Kent’s handmade combs are saw cut then hand polished and buffed to create soft rounded teeth that will not damage your hair or scalp’.
Links: https://storemensroombarbershop.com
Item Reference: 008273
Category: Personal Accessories (Ladies Hair)
Format: Artefact
Description: 4 x flat curlers, contained in cardboard box with home made lid. 1 x loose, vintage Woolworth’s flat metal curlers 70mm long, with clip mechanism; 3 x cards of vintage Woolworth’s small flat metal curlers, 55mm long. Ref number on cards 124W. Made in Great Britain; 2 x loose small flat metal curlers; 11 x metal, 48mm long, hairgrips on part of a card, bought from Superdrug.
Date: 1950s
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