Historic New England

Hair Comb

Horn back comb with a large flared square top, seven teeth remain.

Date: 1825-1836

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 103012

Accession Number: 1951.140

Hair Comb

Tortoiseshell back comb with a large carved and pierced top featuring abstract floral and foliate designs, twelve teeth.

Date: 1810-1840

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 103013

Accession Number: 1935.1529

Hair Comb

Tortoiseshell hair comb with a pierced and carved top featuring an abstract floral design, twenty teeth (two missing).

Date: 1810-1840

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 103014

Accession Number: 1935.1530

Hair Comb

Tortoiseshell back comb with a carved and pierced top featuring a repeating lyre design over a frieze of fruit, twenty-six teeth (one missing).

Date: 1780-1830

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 103015

Accession Number: 2008.4.5

Hair Comb

Tortoiseshell back comb with carved and pierced top featuring a center flower with radiating abstract foliate scrolls, fourteen teeth.

Date: 1810-1840

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 103016

Accession Number: 1934.1277

Hair comb

Tortoiseshell back comb with a pierced and carved top featuring a zigzag border with flames and a frieze of scrolling flowers, twenty-four teeth (five missing)

Date: 1800-1840

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 103017

Accession Number: 1934.1278

Hair Comb

Tortoiseshell back comb with carved and pierced floral top and fifteen teeth.

Date: 1810-1840

Maker: unknown

Material: tortoise shell, carving (processes)

GUSN: 103018

Accession Number: 1933.399

Hair Comb

Tortoiseshell back comb with carved and pierced floral and trellis design top and fourteen teeth.

Date: 1800-1840

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 103019

Accession Number: 1936.817

Hair Comb

Tortoiseshell back comb with a carved top featuring a zigzag and bead border and a frieze with a foliate swag, seventeen teeth (two missing).

Date: 1810-1840

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 103020

Accession Number: 1933.1038

Hair Comb

Tortoiseshell back comb with a carved and pierced top featuring a floral and roundel design, twenty-four teeth (one missing)

Date: 1810-1840

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 103021

Accession Number: 1932.112

Hair Comb

Tortoiseshell back comb with a flared carved and pierced top featuring a floral and scrolled foliage design, seventeen teeth (four missing).

Date: 1810-1840

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 103022

Accession Number: 1933.690

Hair Comb

Tortoiseshell back comb with a carved top featuring a central urn with scrolling flowers and foliage, seventeen teeth.

Date: 1820-1840

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 103023

Accession Number: 1951.70

Hair Comb

Tortoiseshell back comb with a carved and pierced top in a chrysanthemum pattern, twenty-one teeth (one detached).

Date: 1825-1840

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 103024

Accession Number: 1934.1946

Hair Comb

Tortoiseshell back comb with a carved and pierced top featuring a scrolling foliage design, eleven teeth (one broken off).

Date: 1825-1840

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 103025

Accession Number: 1936.563

Hair Comb

Tortoiseshell hair comb in a lyre shaped with carved and pierced floral and foliate decoration, six teeth.

Date: 1830-1850

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 103026

Accession Number: 1937.895

Hair Comb

Tortoiseshell back comb with crown shaped top, carved rosette and flower design, and a border of inset faux pearls, thirteen teeth.

Date: 1850-1990

Maker: unknown

Material: tortoise shell, pearl (color), cellulosic, carving (processes)

GUSN: 103027

Accession Number: 1920.528

Hair Comb

Tortoiseshell back comb with an abstract fleur de lis shaped top, ten teeth.

Date: 1830-1870

Maker: unknown

Material: tortoise shell, carving (processes)

GUSN: 103028

Accession Number: 1920.530

Hair Comb

Tortoiseshell hair comb with pierced and carved top featuring two peacocks and a floral border, thirty-five teeth.

Date: 1820-1840

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 103029

Accession Number: 1920.536

Hair Comb

Horn back comb with a pierced trellis design top terminating in a crown of carved balls, eight teeth (one missing).

Date: 1860-1880

Maker: unknown

Material: horn (animal material)

GUSN: 103030

Accession Number: 1922.183

Hair Comb

Tortoiseshell hair comb with a carved and pierced scroll loop design at top, ten teeth.

Date: 1840-1880

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 103031

Accession Number: 1922.673.1

Hair Comb

Tortoiseshell hair comb with a carved and pierced scroll loop design at top, ten teeth.

Date: 1840-1880

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 103032

Accession Number: 1922.673.2

Hair Comb

Tortoiseshell hair comb with a pierced and carved top featuring a frieze of flowers and a abstract foliage border, forty-one teeth.

Date: 1810-1840

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 103033

Accession Number: 1924.178

Stickpin

Stickpin with a faceted gilt metal ball head

Date: 1850-1920

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 102584

Accession Number: 1969.6065

Beaded Shawl

Shawl of strings of glass beads woven into a fishnet pattern with central diamond in white beads with a spray of red and pink flowers.

Date: 1850-1920

Maker: unknown

Material: glass (material)

GUSN: 102585

Accession Number: 1921.168

Stickpin

Stickpin with gold head engraved with a zigzag and foliate design, chain attached with a bar brooch with a black enameled bird and flower design.

Date: 1850-1870

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 102586

Accession Number: 2007.15.176

Hatpin

Sterling silver hatpin with a knot head.

Date: 1870-1910

Maker: unknown

Material: silver (metal)

GUSN: 102587

Accession Number: 2007.15.113

Stickpin

Gold plated stickpin with a knot head.

Date: 1870-1910

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 102588

Accession Number: 1969.3044

Stickpin

Stickpin set with a silver elephant on top of a ball.

Date: 1880-1910

Maker: unknown

Material: silver (metal)

GUSN: 102589

Accession Number: 1933.1145

Ornament

Gilt ball with spring loop at top and salmon colored chenille tassels

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 102590

Accession Number: 1929.1515

Hatpin

Gilt metal hatpin in the shape of a dagger with a silver hilt in the shape of a dragon with green glass eyes and a pearl set on the top of the handle.

Date: 1875-1920

Maker: unknown

Material: glass (material), silver (metal)

GUSN: 102591

Accession Number: 2007.15.110

Hatpin

Gold hatpin with a ball head with pierced scrollwork.

Date: ca. 1896

Maker: Possibly Shreve, Crump & Low (Retailer)

GUSN: 102592

Accession Number: 1932.867

Hatpin

Silver hatpin with a round head with chased and repoussed scrollwork.

Date: 1880-1910

Maker: unknown

Material: silver (metal)

GUSN: 102593

Accession Number: 1951.118

Hatpin

Hatpin with a round gold head with an impressed mottled design.

Date: 1880-1910

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 102594

Accession Number: 1951.117

Hatpin

Hatpin with a round gilt metal head of open scrollwork.

Date: 1880-1910

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 102595

Accession Number: 1951.116

Hatpin

Stick with a round gold ball head.

Date: 1900-1930

Maker: Enos Richardson & Company (Manufacturer)

GUSN: 102596

Accession Number: 1951.111

Hatpin

Stick with a round gold ball head.

Date: 1900-1930

Maker: Enos Richardson & Company (Manufacturer)

GUSN: 102597

Accession Number: 1951.112

Hatpins

Pair of gilt metal hatpins with balls of ribbed metal ribbons, each has smaller ball suspended from a chain.

Date: 1870-1900

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 102598

Accession Number: 1937.1196ab

Hatpins

Pair of gilt brass hatpins with round heads consisting of woven strips of twisted rope, each has a smaller ball suspended from a chain.

Date: 1870-1900

Maker: unknown

Material: brass (alloy)

GUSN: 102599

Accession Number: 2007.15.109ab

Hatpins

Gilt brass hatpins with heads of ridged ribbons woven into a ball, each has a smaller ball suspended by a chain.

Date: 1870-1900

Maker: unknown

Material: brass (alloy)

GUSN: 102600

Accession Number: 1932.90ab

Gilt brass hatpin with three metal rings looped together, one is plain, one has rows twisted wire, and the last is set with a row of pastes with a twisted wire border, smaller ball set with pastes is suspended from shaft by a chain.

Date: 1870-1910

Maker: unknown

Material: brass (alloy)

GUSN: 102601

Accession Number: 1929.1512

Hatpins

Pair of gilt brass hatpins with round heads of abstract foliate openwork.

Date: 1870-1910

Maker: unknown

Material: brass (alloy)

GUSN: 102602

Accession Number: 1929.1511ab

Hatpins

Pair of hatpins with painted gold ball heads.

Date: 1875-1925

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 102603

Accession Number: 1969.2401.1-2

Hatpin

Hatpin with a gilt metal flower head set with pink glass and faux pearl beads.

Date: 1850-1880

Maker: unknown

Material: glass (material)

GUSN: 102604

Accession Number: 1928.237

Hatpins

Pair of hatpins set with bunches of faux pearls set in gilt brass scroll openwork mounts, each features a chain of pearls attached at the top of the head and at the shaft.

Date: 1850-1890

Maker: unknown

Material: brass (alloy)

GUSN: 102605

Accession Number: 1940.591ab