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Harrods Hat Brush B41
Harrods Hat Brush B41
Original, quality 1920's curved hat brush with pale bristles and the wooden backing and handle in an interesting grained pale timber. The reverse of the handle is impressed "Made in England", "Harrods Ltd" and "Kent" and "H 15". All is complete and in good and working order.

10" long x 1" x 1.5" tall.

 
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Price: £56.00




Gents Clothes Brush B40
Gents Clothes Brush B40
Original, quality 1920's gentleman's clothes brush in super condition with a mahogany top veneer and good bristles. All in good and working order.

13" x 3" x 1.5".

 
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Price: £45.00




Billiard Table Brush B39
Billiard Table Brush B39
Original, quality late 19th century wooden mounted billiard table brush with extended bristles to each end for the corners of the beize. The black bristles are mounted in mahogany with a rosewood veneered top fixed with visible brass pins. All is in superb condition and complete.

12" x 2.5" x 0.5".

Total with bristles 13.5" x 3.5" x 2".

 
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Price: £115.00




Creosote Brush B38
Creosote Brush B38
Original, quality 1920's Creosote brush with a 'fid' shaped turned wooden handle with a hole for a string and a steel band securing the bristles. Some staining from use but a usable, good-looking brush. Complete and in good and working order.

Total 13" x 2" x 2".

 
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Price: £40.00




Clothes Brushes on Stand B35
Clothes Brushes on Stand B35
Original, quality late 19th century set of three brushes on the original cast brass stand for the hall table. The brushes, a pair for clothes and one for hats, have decorated brass mounts for suspending from the Art Nouveau stand, ebonised backs and two colour bristles. The brass has been polished and lacquered, although the lacquer may be removed at no extra cost and all is complete and in good and working order.

Total 9.75" tall x 11.5" x 4.5" front to back.

 
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Price: £230.00




Pair of Clothes Brushes on Wall Mount B34
Pair of Clothes Brushes on Wall Mount B34
Original, quality late 19th century wall mounted pair of oak backed clothes brushes for hanging in the front hallway. This super set with good two-colour bristles have decorative brass mounts and rings to the top and are suspended from a matching brass mount on a bow top honey coloured oak backboard with a mirror plate for fixing. All has been cleaned, the brass polished and lacquered, although the lacquer may be removed at no extra cost and all is complete and in good and working order.

Backboard 11.5" x 6.25" x 0.75" front to back.

Total 4" front to back.

Brushes 8" x 2.5" x 1.75".

 
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Price: £156.00




Tintose Caramel Brush B33
Tintose Caramel Brush B33
Original, quality 1920's clothes brush with a walnut back and handle, issued to promote "Tintose Caramel". The back of the brush is infilled with "caramel Tintose Is the best" and most of all the bristle detail "Tintose" spelt in pale bristles within black bristles. Complete and in good order.

11.5" x 1.5" plus 1.5" tall.

 
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Price: £75.00




L.N.E.R Clothes Brush B32
L.N.E.R Clothes Brush B32
Original, quality late 19th century / circa 1900 mahogany clothes brush with a shaped grip, inset brass screws and most of all with "L.N.E.R" detailed in pale bristles with black bristles surround. For 'London & North Eastern Railway'. Complete and in super condition. What a find !! .

13.5" x 2.75" x 2".

 
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Price: £165.00




Hamiltons Plasterers Brush B30
Hamiltons Plasterers Brush B30
Original, quality 1920's / 30's plasterers stipple brush in boxwood. This super example with complete and clean bristles is stamped to the upper surface for the manufacturer Hamilton & Co Ltd. Complete and in good and working order.

Brush head 5" x 7" x 3" tall.

Total length 13.5".

 
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Price: £65.00




Gents Clothes Brush B27
Gents Clothes Brush B27
Original, quality 1920's gentleman's clothes brush in super condition with a rosewood top veneer and a mahogany body and handle. Complete and in good and working order.

14" x 2.25" x 1.75" tall.

 
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Price: £45.00




Ancaster Garage Clothes Brush B18
Ancaster Garage Clothes Brush B18
Original, quality pre-war, clothes or upholstery brush with a shaped beech handgrip, backing and bristles. The top is detailed in black upper cased text "Happy Motoring, Ancaster Garages, Croydon Rd, SE20" (London) and with the telephone number "SYD4415/6". Complete and in good and order.

8" x 1.75".

1.5" tall.

 
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Price: £38.00




Steel Dustpan and Brush DP2
Steel Dustpan and Brush DP2
Original, quality 1920's pressed steel dustpan with much of the original black japanned paint finish and the tubular handle is designed to take a wooden handle if required. The brush, can you believe, has all its bristles intact and has them mounted up and over at the end and the turned wooden shaft and back are again with most of the Japanned finish. All is complete and in good and working order.

Dustpan 12.5" wide x 13.5" tall plus 4.5".

Brush 12" x 5" x 3.5".

 
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Price: £85.00




GWR Hair Brush R71
GWR Hair Brush R71
Original, quality late 19th century polished wooden backed hair brush of a light colour with brass screw heads to the upper surface and '2' and "HE". To the underside "Burrow & Leeds" for the manufacturer and "GWR" for the owner Great Western Railway and most of all, the bristles decorated in black on cream colour "GWR" in upper case text. Generally complete but for one screw head missing, some minor dents to the upper surface and the top skin of wood is a little warped and is lifting.

10" x 3.5" x 1.5".

 
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Price: £115.00




Shaving Brush SB44
Shaving Brush SB44
Original, quality circa 1900, gentleman's shaving brush with badger hair bristles and a turned bone handgrip. Two short hairline cracks to the handle, otherwise complete and in good order.

3.75" tall x 1" diam.

 
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Price: £45.00


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