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  • Object number
    51/652
  • Collection
    Lavinia Smith Collection
  • Description
    This is a pair of metal curling tongs with large rounded ends used, when heated, for curling hair. Nothing else is known about them.
    This is a pair of metal curling tongs with large rounded ends used, when heated, for curling hair. Nothing else is known about them.
  • Physical description
    1 pair of curling tongs: metal; fair condition- handle ends broken
  • Archival history
    Lavinia Smith Catalogue (D60/28) - 'A list of the contents of the East Hendred museum. July 5 1940 // 482-483. Two little tongs' (It is inferred that Smith's description is of these two particular tongs)
  • Object name
    Tongs, curling
  • Material
    Metal
  • Associated subject
    Berkshire
    PERSONAL LIFE : health, wellbeing and personal care
  • Associated person/institution
    Rippon, Miss Dorothy May Lyddon (Agent)
  • External document
    • L:\MERL\Objects\JISC 2012\35 series negatives\Scans\35_397.tif - High resolution image
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