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<p>[QUOTE="Ownedbybear, post: 408715, member: 29"]The signature is probably the original customer. This looks absolutely typical of English 1930s relatively mass market stuff. It's missing a mirror. I had pieces with that ball and socket fastening. Tag is probably ivorine: again, very commonly used here. </p><p><br /></p><p>B Taylor would be a shop. I'll ask himself, he grew up there, but so many businesses were destroyed in 1940 that I doubt it would have survived into his childhood. Kellys Online Directories might have them, or Grace's Guide. Or Plymouth City Council's archives. Or ask this bloke: <a href="http://www.oldplymouth.uk/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.oldplymouth.uk/" rel="nofollow">http://www.oldplymouth.uk/</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Ownedbybear, post: 408715, member: 29"]The signature is probably the original customer. This looks absolutely typical of English 1930s relatively mass market stuff. It's missing a mirror. I had pieces with that ball and socket fastening. Tag is probably ivorine: again, very commonly used here. B Taylor would be a shop. I'll ask himself, he grew up there, but so many businesses were destroyed in 1940 that I doubt it would have survived into his childhood. Kellys Online Directories might have them, or Grace's Guide. Or Plymouth City Council's archives. Or ask this bloke: [URL]http://www.oldplymouth.uk/[/URL][/QUOTE]
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