Packet
Reckitt and Sons
Category
Historic Services / Cleaning & housekeeping
Date
Unknown
Materials
polish, paper
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Mr Straw's House, Nottinghamshire
NT 742418.8
Summary
One of fourteen small packets of ZEBRA Grate Polish, yellow and black striped paper packet in cardboard box (742418.1). Grate polish wrapped in a black and yellow paper packet. Diagonal black stripes run from top left to bottom right with a single yellow line border cutting through them. Inside this the stripes continue crossed over with a diagonal black band running from bottom left to top right with yellow line border to top and bottom. Inside this in yellow 'ZEBRA Grate Polish Registered.' Above in the top left diagonally sits a yellow oval with black edge and black line drawing of a zebra facing left above which is printed in black 'Registered'. On the long edges a black band with yellow border sits over the continuing stripes inside in yellow 'RECKITT & SONS HULL & LONDON' on top and on the bottom edge 'MAGNIFICENT INSTANT POLISH SAVES TOIL'. Each of the small ends the packet is folded over to form a triangle beneath and on top with a black triangle with yellow edge and continuing stripes behind, inside of which is 'SIZE C'. The stripes continue just over the edge onto the back which is mostly given away to a yellow box with black outline in which is the instructions in black 'EASY WORK! Mix the contents with water to the consistency of good cream. Use this Polish in the same way as ordinary Black Lead, and you will find that it produces a most Brilliant Polish with far less labour The brushes glide over the grate without toil.'.
Provenance
Straw collection bequeathed to The National Trust on the death in 1990 of William Straw.
Marks and inscriptions
ZEBRA Grate Polish
Makers and roles
Reckitt and Sons, manufacturer