Washstand jug

Washstand jug

Lip of washstand jug, with floral pattern, transfer-printed in light-medium blue.
Saucer

Saucer

Saucer fragment with transfer-printed pattern in red, showing figures in the centre.
Saucer

Saucer

Pieces of a saucer, with a red transfer-printed pattern, shaded with pink and light green in the central design.
Soap and toiletries holder

Soap and toiletries holder

Part of a soap/ toiletries. toothbrush holder, from a ceramic washstand set. It may or may not have had a lid. Simple red/brown transfer-printed design to exterior.
Broken plate

Broken plate

Plate with transfer-printed pattern in lilac/purple, showing birds and flora.
Shaving brush

Shaving brush

The top of a two-piece (travelling?) shaving brush. The body is of bone, and there is an internal screw thread for the lower part (which is missing) to screw in to. The bristles have shrunk.
Turned wooden item

Turned wooden item

Turned wooden item, with grooves in the centre and rounded ends. Use unknown. Traces of copper staining at one end. The other end is damaged.
Knife handle

Knife handle

Bone handle from a knife, fork or spoon. The metal blade is missing. The side is split, which may have caused the tang to loosen and the blade to become dislodged.
Boot cream jar

Boot cream jar

Clear glass jar, with external screw thread, ground on top. Embossed on base ‘Propert’s, London’. Such jars contained boot cream or other creams and polishes. It is an early example of a jar with an external screw thread.
Hat polish and hair tonic bottles

Hat polish and hair tonic bottles

Left, bottle embossed down both side panels ‘Argonaut Reg.’, for hat polish. Right, bottle embossed down side panels ‘Floraline’/ ‘London’, corked with metal drizzler – a hair tonic product?
Statuette of man in chair

Statuette of man in chair

Mid-Victorian statuette of man in chair, crudely painted and made in the Staffordshire potteries – possibly a fairing. There are signs that the head (missing) had, in the past, been cemented back on.