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) |
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419 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Bronze kohl-stick. Top broken. [drawing 1:1] | |
519 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Bronze kohl-stick. The end slightly thickened to a knob, the top broken off. | |
7859 | (none) | 1928,1009.339 | (none) | Copper reticule. Cone-shaped with base knob. In it 4 small copper toilet instruments held together by a copper ring. | |
7860 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper reticule. Cone-shaped with base knob. In it 3 small copper toilet instruments held together by a copper ring. | |
7881 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper kohl-stick(?) Head, round knob on square-section rod becoming round at 30mm [drawing 1:1] | |
7883 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper kohl-stick(?) Similar to U.7881, shaped thus [reference to drawing] (broken) [drawing] | |
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. | |
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. | |
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] | |
8895 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper reticule. Normal type. | |
9070 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper reticule Knob end, Broken and fragmentary Within: 3 copper tools attached to a ring Common type. | |
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. | |
9190 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper tweezers Toilet instrument [drawing] | |
9246 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper reticule Common type Manicure set Bottom missing Tools attached to a ring |