by Tom Licence | Jun 1, 2019
Collar stud of bone or early form of plastic
by Tom Licence | Aug 18, 2018
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.
by Tom Licence | Aug 18, 2018
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?
by Tom Licence | Jun 17, 2018
Machine-knitted woollen stocking.
by Tom Licence | Feb 28, 2016
Wooden cotton reels. The smaller one was found inside a pot base, the two seemingly have been discarded together. They survived in waterlogged ash and domestic refuse of the 1890s.
by Tom Licence | Feb 26, 2016
Hand-turned wooden dolly pegs for hanging out clothes on the washing line, found in waterlogged ash mixed with domestic waste from the 1890s. Sometimes these pegs were made by gypsies. Normally wooden items do not survive.
