Personal Grooming

This category includes items associated with personal hygiene and/or altering appearance through cosmetics.

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U Number	Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number)	Museum Number (BM Registration Number)	Museum Number (UPM B-number)	Description (Catalog Card)
8281A	(none)	(none)	(none)	[A-F] Six cockle shells. One containing black paint. Two containing green paint.
8308	(none)	(none)	(none)	Copper mirror? Thin flat metal with tang for handle. [drawing] 1:1
8312A	(none)	(none)	(none)	[A-B] 2 cockle shells containing traces of [A] green and [B] black pigment respectively.
8327A	(none)	(none)	(none)	[A-L] Cockle shells. 12 in all. Containing green and other paints.
8332	(none)	(none)	(none)	Silver object. Probably a mirror. Thin flat metal. The silver is absolutely decayed and reduced to powder: the shape is fairly definite [drawing] but the edges are at present ragged and irregular. Real use of object quite uncertain.
8345A.1	(none)	(none)	B17189	[A and B] 2 cockle shells. Containing green paint.
8356	(none)	(none)	(none)	Copper reticule. Normal type but in bad condition, the reticule itself partly broken and the ring missing.
8362	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cockle shell. Containing green paint.
8378A	(none)	(none)	(none)	[A-F] Cockle shells. 3 pairs. Containing paints.
8383	(none)	(none)	(none)	Copper reticule. The ball point broken.
8384	(none)	(none)	(none)	Copper reticule. In poor condition.
8396	(none)	(none)	(none)	Copper reticule. Originally covered with thin red leather; containing 4 silver instruments: the rings at the top of these are made with fine silver wire coiled round their stems.
8468	(none)	(none)	B17188	Cockle shell. Traces of dark green paint.
8475	(none)	(none)	B17380	Copper reticule Hollow conical copper cap Inside it a number of copper toilet? implements attached to a copper ring. Common type. Ring broken. Badly corroded [drawing]
8479	(none)	(none)	(none)	Copper reticule Conical copper cap with tools inside attached to a ring. Common type.
8499A	(none)	(none)	(none)	[A-B] 2 cockle shells. [A] One containing black, [B] the other containing dark green paint.
8499B	(none)	(none)	(none)	[A-B] 2 cockle shells. [A] One containing black, [B] the other containing dark green paint.
8510	(none)	1928,1009.152	(none)	Gold stiletto and tweezers The tweezers are made with 2 pieces of gold welded together but left separate at the ends, forming thus a spring. They are pointed and flat with extreme width of 00045. The stiletto is quadrangular in section tapering to a point. The rings are made by drawing out the metal itself into a long wire which is bent over and twisted round itself. [drawing, 1:1, showing the two objects joined with a ring]
8514A	(none)	(none)	(none)	[A-B] Cockle shells. Two pairs containing paint (green).
8580A	(none)	(none)	(none)	[A-B] Cockle shells. 2, containing green and black paint.
8650	(none)	(none)	B17015	Copper reticule. With tools (apparently) of silver.
8678	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cockle shells. Containing green and red paint.
8690A	(none)	(none)	B16957	[A] Tweezers and [B] stiletto. Silver. With twisted wire at the top for a ring but this is in both cases missing.
8731	(none)	(none)	B17221	Rectangular paint? box. Limestone. Grey. Resting on 4 low legs. 5 holes 0025 deep and 002 in diam bored into the receptacle. One hole in the middle and one at each corner; two horizontal ribs decorated with vertical notches rim round the sides of the box. One leg missing - part of top missing. [drawing 1:3] sketch.
8895	(none)	(none)	(none)	Copper reticule. Normal type.