Dr Horsey’s (Oriental) Fibre Tooth Brush c1905-1916

Cardboard box, with paper label, originally containing one dozen individually wrapped spare brush heads, 11 brush heads remaining. The box lid features an illustration of a bird with its wings outstretched standing on a toothbrush and is an example of common Egyptomania found in cosmetics in the early decades of the 20th Century. Other Egyptian motifs include an illustration of an Egyptian scene with pyramids and a sphinx. Promoted on the box ‘As old as the pyramids’.