gou>en «a/.urS Cairo, July iiRazors and manicure instruments of of years ago are included in thousands <>l jcais the latest set of objects to betor -.i-ded from the tomb of Queen Hetephercs the mother of Cheops (about 4500 b.c.), to the Cairo Museum. An official announcement says: Objects in solid gold include a small drinking cup with a recurved run and spent, 'two small cups, two razors (sharpened on one edge only), three rectangular knives (sharpened on an four edges) and a manicure implement with a sharp end for cleaning the fln-o-er nails and a rounded end for pressing down the skin at the base of the nails. , r The copper implements consist of nvo razors, which with the two gold razors make a set of seven, and four rectangular knives, which with the three gold knives make' another set of seven. With these is a set of extraordinary flint implements which seem to he the older prototypes of the metal imple-
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Hokitika Guardian, 25 August 1928, Page 3
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162Page 3 Advertisements Column 2 Hokitika Guardian, 25 August 1928, Page 3
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