'Yewsabit' Metal Polish - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 99602 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 250.00 LYCOPODIACEAE Lycopodium sp | Entry Book Number | 12.2014 | |
| Artefact Name | 'Yewsabit' Metal Polish | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | United Kingdom | TDWG Region | United Kingdom | ||
| Parts Held | 'Yewsabit' Metal Polish | Geography Description | Kingston-upon-Thames | ||
| Uses | 'Yewsabit' Metal PolishUse: User: Man | TDWG use | |||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Turner, Jill | Donor No | |||
| Donor Date | 00/00/2014 | Donor Notes | |||
| Collector | Harries, Hugh | Collector No | |||
| Collection Notes | Collection Date | 00/00/2014 | |||
| Exhibition | Expedition | ||||
| Number Components | Publication | ||||
| Notes: | Yewsabit metal polish produced in mills on the river Hogsmill in Kingston over a century ago. See article by Hugh Harries in Palms Journal (2004) 48(2):77-82 where it is suggested that coconut shell flour is an ingredient.x0Dx0APromotional poster: 'Yewsabit', metal polish - unrivalled for cleaning brass, copper and all metals, cleans like magic and leaves brilliant and lasting polish, far superior to ??? foreign made paste. No elbow grease required. Better value than any other. We guarantee our Metal Polis, h entirely free from mercury or any of the poisonous acids generally found in polishing pastes. Free from acid, grit or poison. The Yewsabit Manufaturing Co Ltd. Works: Kingston-upon-Thames. Use-a-bit once, Yews-a-bit always.x0Dx0AAnalysis by Geoff Kite e, ported 28/12/2012: one of the peaks had a molecular formula that matched with several natural products, one of which was from Lycopodium. I could not detect the compounds in the coconut powder analysis (EBC 35429 BI 19534) | ||||
| Determinations: | 187.00 PALMAE Cocos nucifera L. 250.00 LYCOPODIACEAE Lycopodium sp | ||||