Brass depilatory tweezers

Made:: 1880-1920

Brass depilatory tweezers, on purple fibre string
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Brass depilatory tweezers, on purple fibre string, mounted on display board, from North Africa, 1880-1920

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Category:: Ethnography and Folk Medicine

Collection:: Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection

Object Number:: A23274

Materials:: brass

Measurements:: tweezers: length 40 mm
max. tweezers: width 9 mm
mount: length 203 mm
mount: width 115 mm

type:: depilatory tweezers

credit:: Wellcome Trust (Purchased from Stevens)

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