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Domestic Equipment-Home > Cleaning products

+ 86/202 Spirit cleaner, Jar of "Getzwhite...
+ 86/208 Sand soap, "Brooke's Monkey Brand...
+ 86/209 Sand Soap (2), "Pearsons Pumice S...
+ 2003/115/2 Condy's crystals, in glass ja...
+ 87/1252D Container, 'Fuller's Earth', se...
+ 88/691 Bottle, cleaner for straw hats, B...
+ 89/1632 Soap, borax, and packaging, J Ki...
+ K720 Soap, sand, two similar bars of Pea...
+ K944 Brasso, tin of Brasso cleaning flui...
+ K1088 Cleaning products and packaging (8...
+ K1095 Stove cleaner, tin of, 'Stovoid', ...
+ 85/1319 Advertising card, 'Monkey Brand'...
+ 85/1769 Packet of detergent 'Solo Silk',...
+ 85/2123 Cleaning fluid, bottles (2), 'Ca...
+ 85/2410 Cleaning product, 'Kitchen's Coo...
+ 85/576 Packaging, household cleaners (4)...


Domestic Equipment-Home > Laundry packaging

+ 86/1396 Detergent packet, "Rinso", Austr...
+ 86/205 Soap Powder-packet, "Uptons Conce...
+ 87/1436 Packet-lux, soap powder, Lever B...
+ 89/1632 Soap, borax, and packaging, J Ki...
+ 90/148 Packaged soap powder (2), 'Persil...
+ K695 Cardboard boxes for Unilever (XII) ...
+ K716 Soap powder, 'New Scram', paper / s...
+ K720 Soap, sand, two similar bars of Pea...
+ K763 Soap packet, 2 as new packets of "P...
+ K764 Soap packet "Fab". Aust. (c.1965) (...
+ K765 Soap packet "Fab". Aust. (c.1965), ...
+ K789 Three packets Lux soap flakes for d...
+ K1088 Cleaning products and packaging (8...
+ 91/1147 Box, souvenir, paper/cardboard/s...
+ K1362 Packaged soap (4), 'Sunlight', pap...
+ 85/1315 Laundry soap powder, 'Siren', Ki...
+ 85/1334 Laundry soap powder, box, 'Persi...
+ 85/2068 Packaged soap powder, 'Preserven...
+ 85/2104 Soap powder, packet, 'Marvel', A...
+ 85/573 Domestic products in commercial p...
+ 85/586 Packaging, laundry soap, Pearson'...
+ 85/1769-1 Packaging for detergent 'Solo ...
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85/1843 Sand soap, box, 'Simpson's Erasive', Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 1920-1950
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Description
Sand soap, box, 'Simpson's Erasive', Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 1920-1950
85/1843
Height
22 mm
Width
68 mm
Depth
47 mm

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Acquisition credit line
Purchased 1985

This object record is currently incomplete. The information available may date back as far as 125 years. Other information may exist in a non-digital form. The Museum continues to update and add new research to collection records.
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