ADIE & LOVEKIN BIRMINGHAM STERLING SILVER MUSTACHE BEARD FRENCH DOLL BRUSH 1868

Description

ADIE & LOVEKIN VICTORIAN ENGLISH STERLING SILVER MUSTACHE BEARD FRENCH BEBE DOLL BRUSH c1860s.
VERY RARE and in excellent used condition.
Wonderful antique miniature brush used by Victorian gents to groom their mustaches, beards and sideburns.
Would make an absolutely fabulous accessory for an antique doll at only 3”
Clearly stamped with full British hallmarks for sterling / Birmingham / Maker: Adie & Lovekin Ltd. / date code “T” for 1868.
There is also British Registration number 158271.
A&L was a Birmingham (and Chester) firm known for its unique fancy smalls and novelty items, including all sorts of sewing articles, such as thimbles, scissors and pin cushions. They were most famous for their figural pin cushions. These were modeled as shoes but also as animals, most notably pigs, elephants, swans, camels, etc. These are very expensive today and hard to come by.
Their product line was extensive including brushes and vanity items, bookmarks, glove stretchers, nurse’s buckles, salt & peppers, baby rattles and christening sets and numerous others.
This piece is Victorian but they worked into the Edwardian era, ceasing operations circa 1927.
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