CHINESE HAIR BRUSHES.

Putaruru Press, Volume VII, Issue 269, 3 January 1929, Page 4

CHINESE HAIR BRUSHES.

Hand mirrors and hair brushes are rnaue with bark - of silver gilt and enamel having a Chinese pattern in gold and red on a background of black Ihe pattern is a familiar Chinese landscape with a figure crossing a bridge, and a temple in the distance. Tnese brushes are also seen with the same pattern in gilt on powuer blue, but the black, gold, and rod is mor" striking. The cost is about twentvseven guineas a set, -which includes two hair brushes, two clothes brushes and a hand mirror. The most expensive hair brushes, however, are of tortoiseshell. some of them costing nearly £l5O a set. This is for tortoiseshell of a certain blonde shade, the ordinary brown or mottled tortoiseshell being much cheaper. A set of the latter mounted in silver can be bought for £l2 or £l4 but as much as £27 10s can be paid for a single hair brush in blonde tortoi oshell. Travelling clocks, cigarette cases, manicure sets, and maw oth"’things are now being shown in tortoiseshell; they are all rather extensive, and few people would consider them to bo so valuable, as thnv arc plain in eompn-ison with other articles of gold and silver. -. •