M0020005: Dutch barber's shaving bowl, 18th century

Previous title, replaced July 2022: Barber's shaving bowl. Dutch, 18yh century, with the name Jan Maeisom.

Photograph of an 18th century Dutch barber's shaving bowl inscribed with the name Jan Maeisom. The photograph is from an unknown source. Related images: M0020006

January 1965

2 photographs sheet film negative; 10.2 x 12.7 cm photographic print; 10 x 12 cm

Catalogue data comes from a combination of entries in the original glass plate registers, metadata created when the glass plates were digitised in the early 2000s and enhancements made by the cataloguer in 2022.

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