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  • Tooth polish
  • Hall's Liquid Starch Polish, the best in the market. Give it one trial.
  • Portrait of Count Joseph Boruwlaski- Titled "Count Joseph Boruwlaski, the celebrated Polish Dwarf"
  • Portrait of Marie Curie [1867 - 1934], Polish chemist, wife of Pierre Curie
  • Two Polish oxen by a river or lake. Etching by J.A. Klein, 1818.
  • A liqueur label illustrated with a French foot-soldier attacking a Polish cavalcade. Coloured engraving, 19th century.
  • Men and woman in fashionable dress sit and stand around as boys polish the men's boots. Etching, 1801.
  • Three mastiffs and a Polish huntsman are watching a dead bear tumbling down backwards off a rock. Etching by J. E. Ridinger.
  • A boy is kneeling on the ground with a boot cleaning brush in his hand and other brushes and polish nearby. Chromolithograph.
  • [Leaflet (1863?) advertising a variety bill at the Criterion Hall of Amusement, Leicester Square, London with 7 foot tall Polish Giantess, Countess Lodoiska headline act].
  • [2 fund raising stamps / stickers? issued by the Polish post office in 1946 to raise funds to "save children". The Hellbrun refugee (DP) camp is named].
  • [2 fund raising stamps / stickers? issued by the Polish post office in 1946 to raise funds to "save children". The Hellbrun refugee (DP) camp is named].
  • [2 fund raising stamps / stickers? issued by the Polish post office in 1946 to raise funds to "save children". The Hellbrun refugee (DP) camp is named].
  • [2 fund raising stamps / stickers? issued by the Polish post office in 1946 to raise funds to "save children". The Hellbrun refugee (DP) camp is named].
  • Memoirs of the celebrated dwarf, Joseph Boruwlaski, a Polish gentelman, containing a faithful and curious account of his birth, education, marriage, travels and voyages / Written by himself; translated from the French by Mr. Des Carrieres.
  • A servant polishes boots and other shoes. Watercolour by an Indian artist.
  • Vim, cleanser and polisher, advert
  • A mirror polisher at his work. Coloured woodcut by Minkō.
  • A shoe-polisher kneeling before a girl who is holding a doll. Gouache drawing.
  • A barber wearing a turban preparing to shave a seated officer who leisurely smokes a cigar; another assistant, also wearing a turban, polishes boots. Ink drawing.
  • Engineering: a polishing machine (top), and a walking machine (below). Etching.
  • Tools for working and polishing gemstones. Engraving by Defehrt after Boucher.
  • A lapidary at work cutting and polishing stones. Watercolour by an Indian painter.
  • A man polishing semi-precious (?) stones. Gouache painting by an Indian artist.
  • Chemistry: burning-glasses and a glass-polishing machine. Coloured engraving by J. Pass, 1799.
  • Chemistry: two types of burning-glass, and a glass-polishing machine. Engraving by A. Bell.
  • Polished schists of marble and other mixed stones from Mount Vesuvius. Coloured etching by Pietro Fabris, 1776.
  • Polished stone axe-head used in treatment of nephritis in 17th century. In the Musee Lorrain.
  • An Italian medical student leans casually against a billiard table, polishing his cue. Lithograph by the Perrotta brothers after Colomnca[?].
  • A shocked family discovering a chair that has increased enormously in size due to being polished with cod-liver oil. Wood engraving by J. Leech, 1865.