Category: Personal Accessories Collection

Item Reference: 008275
Category: Personal Accessories (Ladies Hair)
Format: Artefact
Description: 1 x metal curling tongs with two wooden handles, ‘The 400 and patent apld’ is stamped on the metal. Spring hinged action, 200mm overall length; 1 x mini metal curling tongs ‘Rola and pat and reg don app for’ stamped on single spring-hinged mechanism, 135mm long; 1 x single barreled ‘vintage hair tong roller grip curler’ with removable end, ‘Patent applied for, Made in England’ and ‘Use only genuine Kirby grips’ stamped on barrel, 165mm long.
Date: 1920s/30s
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Item Reference: 008279
Category: Personal Accessories (Ladies Hair)
Format: Artefact
Description: Pack containing 37 kirby grips, each 50mm long. Pack is 39 x 50 x 12mm. made of cardboard with see through plastic window on the front. Wording on the front ‘EVE Handipak Hair Grips 6d.’ and features a retro design with a woman’s portrait. Wording on the back ‘Ask for Goodman’s HANDIPAKS The original hairgrip window pack Grips always tidy. Made in England by Goodman’
Date: Mid 20th century
Further Information: The name ‘Kirby grip’ comes from the Emglish manufacturers Kirby, Beard and Co Ltd of Birmingham. This company produced hairpins similar to the later invented bobby pin, and their trademarked pin, the “Kirby grip” became a popular term for this type of hair grip
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Item Reference: 008280
Category: Personal Accessories (Ladies Hair)
Format: Artefact
Description: Black plastic and metal hair brush inserted at right angles between two sides of plastic comb with handle. Total length 210mm. Made in England by Betterwear. Patent too difficult to decipher.
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Further Information: Possibly the same company that used to have salesmen going from door to door in the 1950s
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Item Reference: 008281
Category: Personal Accessories (Ladies Hair)
Format: Artefact
Description: 20 brown metal ‘cumfy tipped Kirby grips’, 60mm long on a red, grey and white cardboard card (80 x 115mm). Made by Newey Goodman Ltd. Birmingham 28, England. Sold with a sticker ‘Woolworths decimal’ but price indecipherable.
Date: 1960s/70s
Further Information: Newey Goodman Ltd had two types of business, one was the Haircare based on the Hairgrips and the other was Haberdashery based on dress pins, hooks and eyes etc.
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Item Reference: 008283
Category: Personal Accessories (Ladies Hair)
Format: Artefact
Description: Wooden drum 65mm long, 28mm diameter. Contains 3 x 50mm and 1 x 40mm metal hair grips, 3 x 50mm hat pins, 26 shorter pins of varying lengths – all with plastic knobs at end. 2 needles.
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Item Reference: 008284
Category: Personal Accessories (Ladies Hair)
Format: Artefact
Description: Metal tobacco tin 110 x 80mm. Wording on front ‘Ogdens ST. BRUNO Rough Cut Ready rubbed flake for the pipe’ Contains 3 x metal hair curlers 90mm long, 5 x flexible metal hair curlers, 9 x assorted ‘kirby grips’, and 1 x metal hinged ‘Lady Jayne’ hair clip.
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Item Reference: 008285
Category: Personal Accessories (Ladies Hair)
Format: Artefact
Description: 5 metal curling tongs. 1 x Metal with wooden handles. Total length 280mm. Two prongs that fit into grooves in metal back. 1 x Metal, single, slightly bent curling prong. Total length 270mm. Handle tips 40mm apart when closed. 1 x Light metal, single curling prong. Total length 270mm. Handle tips 450mm apart when closed. 1 x Metal single curling prong. Total length 280mm. Handle tips 40mm apart when closed. 1 x Metal single curling prong. Total length 280mm. Handle tips 20mm apart when closed.
Date: 1920s/30s
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Item Reference: 008287
Category: Personal Accessories (Ladies Hair)
Format: Artefact
Description: Pink G.E.C. Electric hand held hair dryer with gun style handle and compact nozzle. Sticker on back ‘GEC Cat no. DM397A, Volts 230/250, Watts 400, 50 cycles AC only, Br Rg Des 872680, Br Pat no 761583 A91 Made in England’ White and red control buttons on handle. overall dimensions 160 x 240mm. With flex but no plug.
Date: 1950s
Further Information: An advert from 1957 states that the moto fan blades are made of cellulose acetate because of its exceptional toughness. Graces guide has whole history of the General Electric Company of which the domestic market was a small division.
Links: Museum of Design in Plastics Arts University Bournemouth 

Item Reference: 008291
Category: Personal Accessories (Ladies Hair)
Format: Artefact
Description: Blue and cream hand crocheted heart shaped ‘hair tidies’, 90 x 140mm. Each with four blue cotton pom poms attached. Accompanying envelope states, ‘These used to hang on dressing tables to collect hair combings?’
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