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Household Hints
  W.D. & H.O. Wills - 1936
  W.D. & H.O. Wills (Eire) - 1936

Note:  Cards are approximately 1-3/8" x 2-5/8".  This series if often called
"Household Hints (Different)," meaning different from the earlier Wills
issues with the same title Separate editions were published in England and in
Eire. Many thanks to Kyle DeRoy for compiling the checklist and reporting
the first variant title for card #43. Also many thanks to Terry Nixon for
reporting that there is a third virsion for card #43 and two variations for
card #16.

No.   Title

  1   A Simple Barometer
  2   Restoring a Crushed Broom
  3   A Broom-Rack
  4   Ridding a Carpet of Moths
  5   Replacing Loose Castors
  6   Whitening a Ceiling
  7   A Useful Clothes-Line
  8   Cycle-Brackets
  9   Distempering
 10   Making a Dog-Kennel
 11   Cold Water Dyeing
 12   Erecting a Fence
 13   Fire-Lighting Made Easy
 14   "Frosting" a Window
 15   Removing Stains from Polished Furniture
 16   Destroying Worm in Furniture [variant a]
      ? [variant b]
 17   Strengthening an Old Garden-Seat
 18   Laying a Tiled Hearth
 19   Laying Linoleum
 20   Repairing Linoleum
 21   New Springs to Locks (1)
 22   New Springs to Locks (2)
 23   Securing Loose Knife-Handles
 24   Cement Mortar
 25   Three Uses for Old Newspapers
 26   Cleaning an Old Oil-Painting
 27   Removing Old Paint
 28   Repainting Outside Railings
 29   A Useful Painting Hint
 30   Cement Path
 31   Cleaning Pewter
 32   Making a Picture-Frame (1)
 33   Making a Picture-Frame (2)
 34   Re-Gilding a Picture-Frame
 35   Protecting Pipes
 36   Keeping Plants Watered While Away on Holiday
 37   Repairing Broken Pottery
 38   Clearing Choked Rainpipes
 39   Covering a Roof with Bitumen Felt
 40   Some Uses of Salt
 41   Removing Stubborn or Rusted Screws
 42   Removing Sea-Water Stains from Brown Shoes
 43   Cleaning a Thermos Flask  [variant a]
      Cleaning a Vacuum Flask [variant b]
      ? [variant c]
 44   Making a Concrete Wall
 45   Pointing a Brick Wall
 46   Repairing Cracks in Cemented Walls
 47   A Simple Weather-Vane
 48   Mending Electric Wires
 49   Making a Wireless Aerial
 50   Making a Wireless "Earth"

 --   (Card Album)

©2001, 2002 Kyle DeRoy, Jeff Allender. Comments, updates, & corrections are welcomed!

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