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	Help with Shoe Shine Items « on: October 15, 2011, 11:36:12 pm »

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

. Somebody had a great shoe shine business! Great

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	Re: Help with Shoe Shine Items « Reply #1 on: October 16, 2011, 09:27:25 am »

I think most of the items were used well into the 60s.

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	Re: Help with Shoe Shine Items « Reply #2 on: October 17, 2011, 01:36:13 pm »

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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	Re: Help with Shoe Shine Items « Reply #3 on: October 17, 2011, 07:12:36 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!

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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	Re: Help with Shoe Shine Items « Reply #4 on: March 16, 2012, 10:24:32 pm »

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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	Re: Help with Shoe Shine Items « Reply #5 on: March 18, 2012, 11:04:58 am »

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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. Luck

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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	Re: Help with Shoe Shine Items « Reply #6 on: May 10, 2012, 01:32:01 am »

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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	Re: Help with Shoe Shine Items « Reply #7 on: May 10, 2012, 02:56:10 am »

to the forum Larry , cheers from NT Australia . Mick

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	Re: Help with Shoe Shine Items « Reply #8 on: May 15, 2012, 01:30:11 pm »

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

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	Re: Help with Shoe Shine Items « Reply #9 on: June 02, 2012, 10:17:15 am »

Sorry for this delay in responding I have not posted in months. I just returned to metal detecting after having neck surgery 2.5 months ago. Tomorrow it will be my first full day of MDing since then thus I haven't had much to post. I'm glad that I brought good memories to you with my post. I was also a shoe shiner as a young boy in the late 60's early 70's. Regards! Wink

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