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Offline CyberborikuaTopic starter
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« on: October 15, 2011, 11:36:12 PM »
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Picked up these shoe shine tin and bottle in a estate sale, but could not find any info online about them. Thinking that they may be from the 40s-50s based on the other shoe shine artifacts found in the handmade box, but not sure. In fact, I feel that at least the oldest looking brush to the right in the box might be from the late 1800s-early 1900s. What do you folks think?

P.S. - The other three tins in the last pic I was able to find some info online. The ointment tin is filled with shoe repairing nails, cool! The shoe shine box is also neat and it contained yet another cardboard box filled with brand new vintage shoe laces  Smiley . Somebody had a great shoe shine business!  Great

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« Reply #1 on: October 16, 2011, 09:27:25 AM »
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I think most of the items were used well into the 60s.

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« Reply #2 on: October 17, 2011, 01:36:13 PM »
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I was given a shoe polish kit by one of my sisters for my 18th or 19th birthday in 64 or 65 with some of the same polishes in it.  Over the years I used it and bought more polish and wax.  Some of it was Esquire wax and liquid Heritage polish.  Also had brushes similar to the ones in the pic.  The green handled one on the far right appears older than the brush I had in my kit.  But we're talking age range of 1960's into early 1970's!  Interesting kit, though!    Detecting

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I was given a shoe polish kit by one of my sisters for my 18th or 19th birthday in 64 or 65 with some of the same polishes in it.  Over the years I used it and bought more polish and wax.  Some of it was Esquire wax and liquid Heritage polish.  Also had brushes similar to the ones in the pic.  The green handled one on the far right appears older than the brush I had in my kit.  But we're talking age range of 1960's into early 1970's!  Interesting kit, though!    Detecting


Thanks Arfieboy. I loved the kit when I saw it for when I was about 8 yrs old I got a nice handmade shoe shine kit from my young uncle when he moved to New York in the late 60s. I had that kit for many years and even polished the shoes of my neighbors for a few coins in the early 70s. Don't remember what ever happened to that kit. My parents moved almost every year when I was a kid and we use to lose stuff in each moving.

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« Reply #4 on: March 16, 2012, 10:24:32 PM »
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New guy replying to your old post. You might want to check the two smaller (round) brushes. They may have been intended as polish applicator brushes, but the older looking brush, especially, looks like a "Stencil Brush". Try searching that term and do a comparison.
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« Reply #5 on: March 18, 2012, 11:04:58 AM »
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Quote:Posted by Chik Weid
New guy replying to your old post. You might want to check the two smaller (round) brushes. They may have been intended as polish applicator brushes, but the older looking brush, especially, looks like a "Stencil Brush". Try searching that term and do a comparison.
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Not much info online for vintage stencil brushes, but the flat style of the ones seen match your description. I'll keep on checking them out. Thanks

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« Reply #6 on: May 10, 2012, 01:32:01 AM »
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My first job when I was 8, I built a shoe shine box with my dads help and stocked it with the stuff from the bathroom cabinet we used to shine our shoes. I had most of the brushes pictured and most of the polishes. I went down the street in front of the local barber shop and started working, the barber saw me and invited me inside to shine customers shoes and sweep the floor. That was 1953. Brings back memories.

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 Welcome to the forum Larry , cheers from NT Australia . Mick

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Thanks Mick, been a member for many years just haven't posted since the board was redone. Waveing

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