Historic New England

Hair Comb

Horn comb with a thin square top and eighteen teeth.

Date: 1800-1850

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 102966

Accession Number: 1922.309

Hair Comb

Tortoiseshell back comb with a carved and pierced top featuring an urn and scrolling foliage, sixteen teeth (one broken)

Date: 1810-1840

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 102967

Accession Number: 1923.208

Hair Comb

Tortoiseshell back comb with a plain square top and twenty-five teeth (one is missing).

Date: 1820-1850

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 102968

Accession Number: 1924.94

Hair Comb

Tortoiseshell comb with a plain square top and thirteen teeth.

Date: 1800-1860

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 102969

Accession Number: 1924.95

Hair Comb

Tortoiseshell back comb with a pierced and carved top featuring scrolling design of multiple flowers, twelve teeth.

Date: 1810-1840

Maker: unknown

Material: tortoise shell

GUSN: 102970

Accession Number: 1927.1082

Hair Comb

Horn back comb with a carved and pierced top featuring an urn and flower at the center and scrolled foliage, ten teeth.

Date: 1810-1840

Maker: unknown

Material: horn (animal material)

GUSN: 102971

Accession Number: 1927.1083

Hair Comb

Tortoiseshell back comb with a large flared carved and pierced top featuring an abstract floral and foliage design, sixteen teeth.

Date: 1810-1840

Maker: unknown

Material: tortoise shell

GUSN: 102972

Accession Number: 1928.935

Hair Comb

Carved tortoiseshell back comb with a plain square top with rounded corners and eighteen teeth.

Date: 1820-1850

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 102973

Accession Number: 1936.473

Hair Comb

Tortoiseshell back comb with a plain square top and twenty-three teeth (two missing).

Date: 1820-1850

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 102974

Accession Number: 1937.1143

Hair Comb

Tortoiseshell back comb with a plain square top and seventeen teeth.

Date: 1820-1850

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 102975

Accession Number: 1940.242

Hair Comb

Curved tortoiseshell back comb with a plain square top and twenty-seven teeth (three missing).

Date: 1820-1850

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 102976

Accession Number: 1934.876

Hair Comb

Curved tortoiseshell back comb with a plain square head and thirty-six teeth (two missing)

Date: 1820-1860

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 102977

Accession Number: 1934.1276

Hair Comb

Curved tortoiseshell back comb with a plain square top and thirty-one teeth.

Date: 1820-1860

Maker: unknown

Material: tortoise shell

GUSN: 102978

Accession Number: 1937.1245

Hair Comb

Curved tortoiseshell back comb with a plain square top and thirty-three teeth.

Date: 1820-1860

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 102979

Accession Number: 1937.1246

Hair Comb

Curved tortoiseshell back comb with a plain square top and twenty-eight teeth.

Date: 1820-1860

Maker: unknown

Material: tortoise shell

GUSN: 102980

Accession Number: 1929.558

Hair Comb

Horn back comb with a plain square head and canted corners and nineteenth teeth (one missing).

Date: 1820-1860

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 102981

Accession Number: 1941.803

Hair Comb

Horn back comb with a plain square head and twenty-one teeth (three missing)

Date: 1820-1860

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 102982

Accession Number: 1941.804

Hair Comb

Horn back comb with a plain square top and twenty-two teeth.

Date: 1820-1860

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 102983

Accession Number: 1941.805

Hair Comb

Tortoiseshell back comb with a plain shaped square top and six teeth.

Date: 1800-1860

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 102984

Accession Number: 1935.1533

Hair Comb

Tortoiseshell back comb with a plain shaped square top and six teeth.

Date: 1820-1850

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 102985

Accession Number: 1935.1534

Hair Comb

Tortoiseshell hair comb with trapezoid-shaped top and five teeth.

Date: 1820-1850

Maker: unknown

Material: tortoise shell

GUSN: 102986

Accession Number: 1942.786

Hair Comb

Dyed horn comb with a plain square top and twenty teeth (two missing).

Date: 1820-1850

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 102987

Accession Number: 1930.1684

Hair Comb

Light colored horn back comb with a plain square top and twenty-six teeth

Date: 1820-1850

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 102988

Accession Number: 1934.2843

Hair Comb

Horn hair comb with a plain square top and nineteenth teeth.

Date: 1820-1850

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 102989

Accession Number: 1929.557

Hair Comb

Dyed horn back comb with a tapered square top, beveled edge and incised line along the rounded top, eight teeth.

Date: 1820-1850

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 102990

Accession Number: 1943.372

Hair Comb

Horn hair comb with a plain square top with rounded corners and seventeenth teeth (one missing).

Date: 1820-1850

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 102991

Accession Number: 1935.1035

Hair Comb

Light colored horn hair comb with a plain square top and nineteenth teeth.

Date: 1800-1850

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 102992

Accession Number: 1935.1036

Hair Comb

Dyed horn back comb with a plain square top and twenty teeth.

Date: 1820-1850

Maker: unknown

Material: horn (animal material)

GUSN: 102993

Accession Number: 1936.881

Hair Comb

Dyed horn back comb with a plain square top and sixteen teeth

Date: 1820-1850

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 102994

Accession Number: 1920.529

Hair Comb

Dyed horn back comb with a high plain square top and twenty-three teeth (one missing).

Date: 1820-1850

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 102995

Accession Number: 1934.505

Hair Comb

Dyed horn back comb with a oval top and ten teeth (one missing).

Date: 1820-1850

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 102996

Accession Number: 1930.1685

Hair Comb

Dyed horn back comb with a oval top and ten teeth (one missing).

Date: 1820-1850

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 102997

Accession Number: 1930.1686

Hair Comb

Dyed horn back comb with a plain curved top with rounded corners and sixteen teeth (missing two).

Date: 1820-1850

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 102998

Accession Number: 1933.398

Hair Comb

Horn back comb with a square top and dyed abstract flower and sun design, twenty-six teeth (two missing).

Date: 1820-1850

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 102999

Accession Number: 1936.472

Hair Comb

Horn back comb with a square top and dyed abstract floral design, twenty-four teeth.

Date: 1820-1850

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 103000

Accession Number: 1936.565

Hair Comb

Tortoiseshell back comb with carved pierced decoration featuring an urn at the center and surrounded by scrolling leaves, twenty teeth (one missing).

Date: 1780-1830

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 103001

Accession Number: 1955.22

Hair Comb

Tortoiseshell back comb with carved and pierced top featuring floral and foliate decoration, twenty teeth.

Date: 1810-1840

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 103002

Accession Number: 1946.19

Hair Comb

Tortoiseshell back comb with a carved and pierced top featuring roundels and flowers at top, palms at the center and a chain of leaves and flowers at the bottom, twenty-four teeth.

Date: 1810-1840

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 103003

Accession Number: 1946.20

Hair Comb

Tortoiseshell back comb with a carved and pierced top featuring a scrolling foliate design, sixteen teeth.

Date: 1810-1840

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 103004

Accession Number: 1936.564

Hair Comb

Horn back comb with a large flared top featuring molded arched rays and fourteen teeth.

Date: 1800-1840

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 103005

Accession Number: 1912.79

Hair Comb

Horn back comb with a carved and pierced top featuring an urn at center and scrolled abstract foliage, seventeen teeth.

Date: 1780-1830

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 103006

Accession Number: 1968.136

Hair Comb

Horn back comb with a carved and pierced top featuring scrolling foliage, twelve teeth (three missing).

Date: 1810-1840

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 103007

Accession Number: 1944.843

Hair Comb

Horn back comb with a pierced and carved top featuring an urn at the center and scrolling foliage and abstract flowers, thirteen teeth.

Date: 1800-1840

Maker: unknown

Material: horn (animal material)

GUSN: 103008

Accession Number: 1936.882

Hair Comb

Horn back comb with a top in three sections each featuring a carved and pierced floral design, ten teeth.

Date: 1780-1820

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 103009

Accession Number: 1934.202

Hair Comb

Horn back comb with a carved and pierced top featuring an urn and flower at center and radiating abstract foliage, ten teeth (center eight are a replacement).

Date: 1780-1830

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 103010

Accession Number: 1955.115