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🌹 From The Tea Rose Cabinet of Curiosities…
Imagine standing at the bathroom washstand over 100 years ago.
No electric toothbrush. No whitening strips. No fancy tubes of toothpaste.
Instead, you might have reached for a
, sold by a chemist in Plymouth for just 6d.
It promised to remove tartar and whiten the teeth “without injuring the enamel.”
Beside it, an old toothbrush, its natural bristles long since disappeared, leaving only the tiny holes where they once sat.
It’s chipped. It’s worn. It certainly isn’t perfect.
But that’s exactly why I love it.
I actually remember things like this sitting on my mum’s windowsill when I was a child. I was fascinated by them even then. Little old objects that had belonged to someone else, from another time, with a story we’d probably never know.
Someone once used these as part of their ordinary morning routine, never imagining that more than a century later, someone else would pick them up and wonder about their life.
Maybe that’s where my love of old things began.
Victorian dental history, saved from being forgotten. 🌹
The Tea Rose Cabinet of Curiosities
Objects with a past. Stories worth keeping.
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