Record ID: LEIC-5DC51B
Object type: BRUSH
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Post-Medieval brush made from Animal Skeletal Material, dating to, c.AD 1650 - 1900. The brush is largely rectangular in plan with slightly concave sides, it is D-shaped in section. Length: 130.1 mm Width: 23.5 mm Thickness: 7.5 mm Weight: 24.6 g
Created on: Monday 5th September 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 3rd January 2023
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Record ID: WAW-735EA8
Object type: BRUSH
Broad period: MODERN
County: Staffordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete silver object, likely a hairbrush, manufactured in Birmingham in 1907 for the Boot’s Pure Drug Company. On the back of the hairbrush, there is a hallmark consisting of an anchor, a lion, and a lowercase ‘h’, all of which would mean that this was manufactured in Birmingham in 1907. The maker’s mark is BPDC, which is the maker’s mark of the Boot’s Pure Drug Company. Whilst this normally seems to have appeared in a shield, there does not seem to be a shield around the letters of the maker’s mark on this item. The back of the object is decorated with …
Created on: Wednesday 1st June 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 1st June 2022
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Record ID: HAMP-ACBE1F
Object type: BRUSH
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A wooden brush, 185mm in length and 41mm wide, hand-carved from a single piece of wood. The brush has an integral handle with rounded cross section and a head which has a plano-convex cross section and rounded end. There are 21 circular openings which are drilled across the head to take bunches of bristles. These are now mostly lost although some fragments remain in situ. There are six larger holes in two rows staggered along the central part of the brush with 15 smaller holes around the outside, which because of the curve of the head, extended the bristles around the sides as well as…
Created on: Friday 24th July 2020
Last updated: Friday 24th July 2020
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Record ID: SUR-194179
Object type: BRUSH
Broad period: MODERN
County: Bedford
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Modern bone handle from a toothbrush bearing the stamped legend HARRY SHACKLETON ABERGAVENNY. Shackleton was a pharmacist, operating c.1873 to c.1920. The handle is flat in curves in plan. The tip of the brush end is missing although some of the attachment grooves remain present.
Created on: Tuesday 21st March 2017
Last updated: Thursday 4th May 2017
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Record ID: BH-786C71
Object type: BRUSH
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Part of a post-Medieval bone brush. The sub-rectangular, flat-sectioned head is missing its upper portion. On one of the two wider surfaces, four columns of circular indentations represent points of attachment for the now-missing bristles. The opposite surface has four parallel grooves, aligned longitudinally, around which there is green copper corrosion. This staining is also visible within the broken indentations at the top of the brush. The head tapers into the remaining portion of the straight-sided shaft. Length: 37.3mm; width: 13.8mm; thickness: 5mm; weight: 2.52g.
Created on: Friday 21st February 2014
Last updated: Wednesday 26th February 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Farnham', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NLM-57E694
Object type: BRUSH
Broad period: MODERN
County: North East Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy Loop. Oval loop with a handle made by twisting a length of flat rectangular section wire of 2.3mm width and 0.7mm thickness (with corrosion); the end has been cut with shears. Though green corrosion covers much of the wire, bright metal is exposed by abrasion at one end. This resembles the wire handle of a bottle brush, though deliberately cut, perhaps to serve as a toy for blowing soap bubbles. Suggested date: Modern, 1850-1950. Length: 134mm, Diameter (handle): 3mm, Weight: 5.62gms.
Created on: Wednesday 11th April 2012
Last updated: Monday 14th January 2013
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Record ID: YORYM-946CC6
Object type: BRUSH
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete bone brush head of post-medieval date. The brush is an elongated oval in plan with a rectangular section. Along one side are numerous circular indentations and the other side has four incised lines running its length. Both sides have green staining which may represent the presence of wire tufts. The brush is 53.6mm long, 14.5mm wide, 4.6mm thick and weighs 3.8g.
Created on: Tuesday 8th November 2011
Last updated: Tuesday 22nd November 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Cottingham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-604F60
Object type: BRUSH
Broad period: MODERN
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy Brush handle. Cast figurative handle with a terminal suspension loop, engaged with a hollow tube retaining a brush head (now lost). The handle represents the Lincoln Imp, seated between springing fronds over a double collared base; the suspension loop rises from above the ears of the figure. Presumably from a decorative souvenir hearth brush. Suggested date: Modern, 1850-1950. Length: 125.5mm, Width: 22mm, Thickness: 11.8mm, Weight: 57.24gms.
Created on: Monday 13th June 2011
Last updated: Tuesday 30th August 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Roxby', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SWYOR-F13912
Object type: BRUSH
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy object which is probably the head of a brush. The object is a bar which is 79.1mm long, 9.6mm wide and 5.5mm thick. It has a countersunk rivet or screw holes at each end, and a irregular row of fifteen smaller holes along the middle. These are flanked by a row of 16 smaller holes on each side. It is believed that the bristles of the brush would have been attached through the small holes, and the plate than attached to the wooden head of the brush with the countersunk holes. The brush probably dates from the eighteenth or nineteenth century. Similar objects can be seen in…
Created on: Monday 5th November 2007
Last updated: Tuesday 4th September 2012
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