MANICURE SET, LIPFERT

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c. 1940

Overview

The set comes from the Lipfert home, 270 York Street, Subiaco. It consists of [a] leather case, [b] cotton wool bottle, [c] oily polish remover, [d] oily cuticle remover bottle, [e] liquid polish, [f] emery board, [g] emery board, [h] long lemon cuticle stick, [I] short lemon cuticle stick, [j] nail scissors, [k] nail white pencil. Rectangular black leather case, with 2 press-stud fastenings. Metal frame within holding 1 red plastic oblong bottle [containing cotton wool] and three glass oblong bottles with black plastic lids [containing polisher removers]. The remaining items [f-k] are held in place by leather loops, fixed by stitched leather piece. A fabric label in the case states 'Genuine Leather. Cutex. Marquisette. Made in U.S.A.' Paper labels on the glass bottles state 'Cutex, Northern Warren. 115 Pitt St. Sydney.' On the scissors is engraved 'Stahl', indicating they are steel and made in Germany. On the nail pencil is printed 'Cutex Nail White Pencil. British Patent 383965. Oct. 10 1930. Made in Germany'.

Historical information

Miss Gertrude Lipfert lived in the family home at 270 York Street, Subiaco until her death in 1989. Daughter of Otto Lipfert, taxidermist at WA Museum. Otto Lipfert was born in Germany in 1864. He trained and worked there as a furrier, but he developed a keen interest in nature and the animal species that were exciting Europeans in Australia. On hearing there was no taxidermist in Western Australia he migrated in 1892, making the voyage in a British ship so that he could learn English on the way.
In 1894 he became the first taxidermist to work for the Western Australian Museum. He made his first collecting trip—to the Abrolhos Islands—that spring.
Lipfert was naturalised in 1900. In 1902 he married German-born Anna Struck at the German club in Perth. The couple built a house at 270 York St (formerly Gibney Street), Subiaco, where members of the Lipfert family lived until 1989. Two daughters: Gertrude and Elsa.

Details

Registration number

cwa-org-43-1990.113a-k

Item type

Material