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Gilberd & Sons Ltd :"Rough scrubber" carbolic sand soap, recommended as an economical and reliable disinfectant for scrubbing floors, tables, benches, walls, sinks, etc. The free use of this carbolic sand soap will effectually prevent the spread of fevers, cholera, smallpox and other dread diseases ... [Wrapping. ca 1910-1920s?]
- Date
- 1910 - 1930
- By
- J B Gilberd & Sons Ltd
- Reference
- Eph-B-CLEANING-1910s-01
- Description
Soap wrapper describing the uses of the soap ("Germs, fleas, bugs, ticks, spiders, flies and other vermin cannot live where this soap is frequently used"). Gives directions for use: "Wet the scrubbing brush or cloth and then rub sand soap on. Do not put the sand soap in water, as it is liable to crumble. Also advocates Waxine soap for laundry use.
Gilberd & Sons were Wanganui soap manufacturers, from around the 1890s to the 1980s.
Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s).
Physical Description: Letterpress, on red paper 282 x 189 mm.
- Additional description
Alternative form available: Scanned from original
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
- Part of
- [Ephemera related to cleaning, cleansers, cleaning agents and chemicals, laundry and laundries, dry cleaners. 1900-1949]
- Format
- 1 b&w art print(s), Advertisements, Ephemera, Letterpress works, Packaging, Letterpress, on red paper 282 x 189 mm., Orientation: Vertical image
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