Nail File

Name/Title

Nail File

Entry/Object ID

1997.033.003

Description

A steel nail file with a very sharp arrow-shaped tip for cleaning nails. Has a wider, serrated center piece for filing nails and a spoon-shaped end of pushing cuticle back. The "spoon" has a tiny hole in it; purpose of the hole unknown.

Acquisition

Source (if not Accessioned)

Sherriff, Norman

Notes

Accession Date: 27-Aug-97 Mode of Acquisition: gift

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Secondary Object Term

File, Nail

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Tool, Manicure

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Beauty Supplies

Nomenclature Class

Toilet Articles

Nomenclature Category

Category 03: Personal Objects

Legacy Lexicon

Object Name

nail file

Created By

Greenlee, Lucy

Create Date

September 3, 1997

Update Date

November 5, 2025