Toiletry Kits
This category includes objects used in personal hygiene, with a case surrounding the instruments.
This category includes objects used in personal hygiene, with a case surrounding the instruments. The instruments include a pointed rod, possibly a khol stick, a lancet, or stiletto, a flattened spatual object, and a pair of tweezers. These are encased in a metal cone known as a reticule.
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| Object | U Number | Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number) | Museum Number (BM Registration Number) | Museum Number (UPM B-number) | Description (Catalog Card) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7886 | (none) | 1928,1009.342 | (none) | Copper reticule. Usual cone with knob end: the case is broken, exposing the implements, viz: a tiny knife or spatula, a second apparently similar, a chisel-edged tool(?), a rod, possibly a kohl-stick [drawing] | |
 | 7908 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Kohl stick. Ivory. Rectangular in section, thickening towards the head and then sharpened to point. |
| 7968 | (none) | 1928,1009.340 | (none) | Copper reticule. Normal triangular type with 4 tools inside on a loop. | |
| 7988B | (none) | (none) | (none) | [A] Copper knife. Straigh-sided with square shoulders to a short tang in which was one rivet (broken off: point of knife also broken but present). Oxydised onto the knife blade is a [B] copper reticule of normal type II. |
| 8037 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper reticule. Normal type with 4 instruments. |
| 8278A | (none) | (none) | (none) | [A-C] Copper Reticules. Base broken away in each case. Only A has lip intact. [drawing] 1:1 |
| 8278B | (none) | (none) | (none) | [A-C] Copper Reticules. Base broken away in each case. Only A has lip intact. [drawing 1:1] |
| 8278C | (none) | (none) | (none) | [A-C] Copper Reticules. Base broken away in each case. Only A has lip intact. [drawing 1:1] |
| 8356 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper reticule. Normal type but in bad condition, the reticule itself partly broken and the ring missing. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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] |
| 8650 | (none) | (none) | B17015 | Copper reticule. With tools (apparently) of silver. | |
| 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. |
| 8690B | (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. |
| 8895 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper reticule. Normal type. |
| 8983 | (none) | (none) | B17428 | Copper reticule (the ring broken) | |
| 9070 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper reticule Knob end, Broken and fragmentary Within: 3 copper tools attached to a ring Common type. |
| 9076 | (none) | (none) | B17472 | Copper reticule Copper tools attached to a ring within the case [drawing] | |
| 9084 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper reticule Within: tools attached to a copper ring. Bottom of reticule ends in a knob. Poor condition. Broken at bottom. Part of ring missing [drawing] |
| 9127A | (none) | 1928,1009.365 | (none) | [A] Copper stiletto and [B] tweezers (imperfect). Originally together on a ring. Type as of the gold example. | |
| 9127B | (none) | (none) | (none) | [A] Copper stiletto and [B] tweezers (imperfect). Originally together on a ring. Type as of the gold example. |