Toothbrush
notes: label: Description
content: Small toothbrush with bone handle and inscriptions that read “FRANCE” and “TRADE ROLLING MARK.” This mark usually referred to G. B Kent & Sons of London, a firm that was established in 1777, and that claims to be the world’s oldest and most prestigious brush manufacturer.
label: Description
content: Ref: Doris Woodall, A Short History of the House of Kent: G. B. Kent & Sons, Ltd. (1959).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: France
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
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content: Health & Medicine
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content: Beauty and Hygiene Products: Oral Care
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content: Beauty and Health
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2012.0165.440
label: catalog number
content: 2012.0165.440
label: accession number
content: 2012.0165
objectType: label: Object Name
content: oral hygiene product
label: Object Name
content: toothbrush
label: Object Type
content: toothbrushes
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: bone (product material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 5/8 in x 5 1/8 in x 1/2 in; 1.5875 cm x 13.0175 cm x 1.27 cm