Historic New England

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

Hair Comb

Tortoiseshell back comb with a carved and pierced top featuring a row of leaves framed by a circle border, six teeth.

Date: 1840-1880

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 103034

Accession Number: 1924.672

Hair Comb

Tortoiseshell back comb with a carved and pierced top featuring a linked chain design, eight teeth.

Date: 1870-1880

Maker: unknown

Material: tortoise shell

GUSN: 103035

Accession Number: 1928.256

Hair Comb

Tortoiseshell hair comb with a carved and pierced top featuring a row of roundels with small pierced stars, nine teeth.

Date: 1820-1850

Maker: unknown

Material: tortoise shell

GUSN: 103036

Accession Number: 1928.936

Hair Comb

Tortoiseshell side comb with a carved and pierced top featuring an abstract scroll of foliage design, fifty-two teeth (two missing)

Date: 1820-1850

Maker: unknown

Material: tortoise shell

GUSN: 103037

Accession Number: 1928.937

Set of Hair Combs

Three tortoiseshell side combs, two big one small, all feature a serpentine shaped top with a border of carved balls, all have twenty-three teeth.

Date: 1860-1880

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 103038

Accession Number: 1935.250a-c

Hair Comb

Horn back comb with a serpentine shaped top, twelve teeth.

Date: 1860-1890

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 103039

Accession Number: 1930.1687

Hair Comb

This tortoiseshell back comb is decorated with a carved and pierced top featuring a scrolled trellis design with foliage.

Date: 1850-1890

Maker: unknown

Material: tortoise shell

GUSN: 103040

Accession Number: 1931.1579

Hair Comb

Tortoiseshell back comb with a carved and pierced top featuring a double loop design, nine teeth (two missing)

Date: 1850-1890

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 103041

Accession Number: 1934.1225

Hair Comb

Tortoiseshell back comb with a carved and pierced round top featuring a vine of grape bunches and leaves, eleven teeth (three missing)

Date: 1850-1890

Maker: unknown

Material: tortoise shell

GUSN: 103042

Accession Number: 1934.1226

Hair Comb

Tortoiseshell back comb with a carved and pierced top featuring a continuous loop design, eight teeth (two missing).

Date: 1850-1890

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 103043

Accession Number: 1934.1227

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