W.D. & H.O. Wills

Household Hints (1936)

Stock ID: Wyk

Full set of 50 vintage cigarette cards.

This series consists of the following subjects:

• 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
• 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
• 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”