Shaving Soap Bowl
1936-1939 (made)
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Round bowl with screw-on lid, made from green and black mottled Bakelite. The bowl stands on a moulded foot, the lid is decorated with a pattern of concentric rings. Inside, at the bottom, there are three moulded bumps.
Object details
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| Parts | This object consists of 2 parts.
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| Materials and techniques | Compression-moulded Bakelite |
| Brief description | Shaving soap bowl; green and black Bakelite; H. Bronnley & Co; England, probably late-1930s? |
| Physical description | Round bowl with screw-on lid, made from green and black mottled Bakelite. The bowl stands on a moulded foot, the lid is decorated with a pattern of concentric rings. Inside, at the bottom, there are three moulded bumps. |
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| Production type | Mass produced |
| Object history | Fred Bulmer, a collector based in Leeds, Yorkshire, offered his collection of ‘plastic antiques’ to the V&A in late 1982. The Museum chose to purchase 59 objects from Bulmer the following year (for acquisition papers see MA/1/B3395). The objects were divided among the Museum’s collections according to object type: Furniture and Woodwork taking 26 objects (W.50 to 75-1983), Metalwork 18 objects (M.49 to 66-1984) and Ceramics and Glass 14 objects (C.41 to 54-1984). |
| Historical context | H. Bronnley & Co. is a British manufacturer of soaps and toileteries, formed in London in 1884. This bowl would have been included with the soap when it was purchased. |
| Production | An identical bowl in red Bakelite, made for Rolls Razor, is also in the V&A collection (see M.64-1984). |
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| Associated object | M.64-1984 (Version) |
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| Accession number | M.52-1984 |
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| Record created | June 24, 2009 |
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