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 | Mar 10, 2016
Broken statuette or ornament involving a woman or girl leaning over/ into an object, perhaps a large vessel. She wears a pink top, blue sash, white socks, blue shoes and a skirt decorated with flowers in green and red. Her legs are coloured in light flesh tones. The...
by Tom Licence | Mar 31, 2015
Aqua glass bottle, 12.7 cm tall, embossed on three sides: ‘Hauthaway’s/ Peerless Gloss/ Made in U.S.A’. Hauthaway’s company, established in 1852, manufactured protective coatings for shoes. The bottles come in different colours. Some have the...
by Tom Licence | Jan 24, 2015
A variety of dolls’ legs. These were tied, sewn or glued into fabric bodies and covered with the dresses worn by the dolls. Some have stockings and boots. It would have been too complicated for makers of cheap dolls to differentiate between left legs and right...
by Tom Licence | Jan 4, 2015
Aqua protective varnish bottle, embossed on two side ‘Hauthaway’s / Peerless Gloss’. Cork top. This American company made protective coatings for footwear.
by Tom Licence | Jan 3, 2015
Labourers’ shoes. Leather with copper alloy eyelets.
by Tom Licence | Dec 22, 2014
Woman’s leather shoe, c. 1910. From rubbish from labourers’ cottages, Kent.
