Item Reference: 008248
Category: Personal Accessories (Cosmetics)
Format: Artefact
Description: Powder compact, plastic, in original packaging which reads, ‘Teint Majeur Creme poudree Lancome Paris Vrai beige 10’, 2ml
Date: 1980s
Further Information: Produced in the 1980s and advertised in 1988
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Item Reference: 008508
Category: Personal Accessories (Cosmetics)
Format: Artefact
Description: A small rectangular mirror with a maroon backing
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Item Reference: 008509
Category: Personal Accessories (Cosmetics)
Format: Artefact
Description: Square glass bottle, with silver top, labelled ‘Eternity For Men, eau de toilette, Calvin Klein’
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Further Information: Marketed for thirty years, but the current style of bottle and typeface is not like the one in the box
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Item Reference: 008255
Category: Personal Accessories (Cosmetics)
Format: Artefact
Description: Circular Jewellery box, red cardboard, containing a mauve piece of cloth which contains cosmetic powder. ‘Knud Jacobsen Guldsmed Silkeborg Denmark’ written on box in gold. Silkeborg was a gold and silver smith with no connection to cosmetics.
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Item Reference: 008041
Category: Personal Accessories (Gents)
Format: Artefact
Description: The Amazing Speed-Shaper, elasticated exerciser. Two brown rubber straps with loops, joined by plastic ring. Includes fourteen-page instruction booklet. Endorsed by Olympic weight-lifting champion Isaac ‘Ike’ Berger (1936-2022)
Date: 1980s
Links: More about Isaac Berger
Item Reference: 002006
Category: Stationery
Format: Artefact
Description: Salter Model 702 postal scales, with scale dial on either side; though they display the same information, they are not identical in looks. The scales are labelled with both grams and pounds, going up to one kilogram. The inside of the scale dial features segments for Air Mail Letters (Zones A /B/C), Inland Letters (1st and 2nd class), and Commonwealth and Foreign Letters, alongside the corresponding postage price in pence on one side, and the same on the other with the addition of Printed Papers – Full Rate Overseas Surface. The prices differ. Registered design numbers are labelled as 952533/4/5. Made in England.
Date: c. late-1970s-1980
Further Information: Most likely used in a business post room, as they lack official signage and certification of the Royal Mail or Weights and Measures. This could potentially explain the discrepancy of the prices, as intended to give a broad idea of the cost, rather than accuracy, or potentially one side denoted the cost of the stamp/postage, and the more expensive side included the cost of packaging needed.
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Item Reference: 001663
Category: Toys and Games
Format: Artefact
Description: Plastic toy of Superman, with a button that shows Clark Kent changing into Superman in a phone booth; a Burger King kids club toy; made in China.
Date: 1997
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Item Reference: 006659
Category: Toys and Games
Format: Artefact
Description: Lego 1030 Technic 1 simple machines set, comprising assorted Lego pieces in a storage box
Date: 1985
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Item Reference: 006685
Category: Toys and Games
Format: Artefact
Description: Small plastic toy doll, in clear plastic packaging, labelled ‘Miss Switzerland’. In clothing that resembles typical fashions of the late 1950s-1970s, with red shoes and brown hair with a red bow.
Date: c. 1980s
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Item Reference: 006682
Category: Toys and Games
Format: Artefact
Description: Small hard plastic doll labelled ‘Thailand’ in traditional dress. The dress appears to be a mixture of the lower body panung garment and upper body suea pat garment. Features a hairstyle with two twisted buns around either side of the head. Head unattached.
Date: c. 1970s
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