Mamma! That Brush Man's Here Again - Not for this British brush hawker is the small, neat bag made famous by cartoons of American brush salesmen. Instead he has arranged his entire stock of samples around a hoop which he carries over his shoulder as he makes his way from door to door. And business, he assured the (name of paper's) photographer, is very good - even if he isn't a Beau Brummel. April 13, 1938. (Photo by Register and Tribune Syndicate Photoservice).