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<p>Box file containing items of ephemera in acid free sleeves. Includes: Lifebuoy Soap ('Let Lifebuoy protect your family's health! 1935?), Lifebuoy Royal Disinfectant Soap (for hands and bath), Lifebuoy's 'The game of clean hands and dirty hands' board game, Wright's Coal Tar Soap, D.W. Gibbs's Superfine Cold Cream Soap (1901? : "a marvellous remedy for eczema"), Vinolia Soap for sensitive skins (1892?), Plantol Soap (free from animal fats), Vaseline Soap, Soft Soap (Palmer & Co., Ltd., 1903).</p>

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Soap ephemera. Box 3.

xlviii, 328 pages 3 unnumbered leaves, 2 unnumbered folded leaves of plates : illustrations ; (8vo)

Traité de la construction théorique et pratique du scaphandre ou du bateau de l'homme ... approuvé par l'Academie Royale des Sciences / par M. de la Chapelle.

<p>Shaped leafet (roughly that of a shield) advertising an early lifebelt which would be strapped to the wearer (2 small diagrams at the top show just how). Probably 1820s. The preserver is illustrated above the text and below a coat of arms. A small illustration of a man in the water wearing one is along the base of the paper. It was printed by "Jones... Whitcomb Court, Leicester Fields" in Soho, London.</p>

By his Majesty's Royal letters patent : the Collinette or life preserver to save persons from drowning in case of shipwreck or fire by sea, &c. : may be had of the inventors and patentees / L. Collin... & J. Butters.

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Soap ephemera. Box 3.

Traité de la construction théorique et pratique du scaphandre ou du bateau de l'homme ... approuvé par l'Academie Royale des Sciences / par M. de la Chapelle.

By his Majesty's Royal letters patent : the Collinette or life preserver to save persons from drowning in case of shipwreck or fire by sea, &c. : may be had of the inventors and patentees / L. Collin... & J. Butters.

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Life preservers

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Soap ephemera. Box 3.

Traité de la construction théorique et pratique du scaphandre ou du bateau de l'homme ... approuvé par l'Academie Royale des Sciences / par M. de la Chapelle.

By his Majesty's Royal letters patent : the Collinette or life preserver to save persons from drowning in case of shipwreck or fire by sea, &c. : may be had of the inventors and patentees / L. Collin... & J. Butters.

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