Historic New England

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

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

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

Hair Comb

Tortoiseshell back comb with a carved and pierced top featuring a twisted foliate scroll design, ten teeth.

Date: 1850-1890

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 103044

Accession Number: 1936.816

Hair Comb

Horn back comb with a carved and pierced top featuring a berry and leaf design, dyed with red stripes to imitate tortoiseshell, two teeth.

Date: 1820-1850

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 103045

Accession Number: 1935.1037

Hair Comb

Celluloid back comb with a carved and pierced top featuring two rows of a baluster design, eight teeth.

Date: 1870-1890

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 103046

Accession Number: 1935.1038

Hair Comb

Tortoiseshell back comb with a curved carved and pierced top featuring a scrolling floral design, seven teeth.

Date: 1830-1860

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 103047

Accession Number: 1935.1531

Hair Comb

Tortoiseshell side comb with a pierced and carved top featuring a scrolling foliate design, thirty-two teeth (one missing).

Date: 1830-1850

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 103048

Accession Number: 1935.1532

Hair Comb

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

Date: 1850-1890

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 103049

Accession Number: 1935.1535

Hair Comb

Tortoiseshell side comb with a carved and pierced featuring a design of five abstract foliate bunches, multiple small teeth (many missing).

Date: 1820-1850

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 103050

Accession Number: 1936.474

Hair Comb

Tortoiseshell back comb with round carved and pierced top featuring a scrolling vine with grape bunches and flowers, eight teeth.

Date: 1825-1860

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 103051

Accession Number: 1936.475

Hair Comb

Tortoiseshell hair comb carved in a continuous loop design.

Date: 1830-1860

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 103052

Accession Number: 1936.476

Hair Comb

Horn back comb with a round carved and pierced top featuring a floral and leaf design, six teeth.

Date: 1810-1840

Maker: unknown

Material: horn (animal material)

GUSN: 103053

Accession Number: 1936.880

Hair Comb

Tortoiseshell back comb with a curved carved and pierced top featuring an abstract three dimensional scroll design, ten teeth.

Date: 1850-1880

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 103054

Accession Number: 1938.941

Hair Comb

Tortoiseshell back comb with a carved and pierced top with a three dimensional twisted scroll design, nine teeth.

Date: 1850-1880

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 103055

Accession Number: 1938.942

Hair Comb

Tortoiseshell back comb with carved flutes and a scalloped edged top, seven teeth.

Date: 1850-1880

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 103056

Accession Number: 1940.585

Hair Comb

Tortoiseshell back comb with seven ovals at top each inlaid in center with a silver sprig of grape leaves and a bunch of gold grapes and surrounded by a gold piqué posé wave border, eight teeth.

Date: 1860-1880

Maker: unknown

Material: silver (metal)

GUSN: 103057

Accession Number: 1941.1113

Hair Comb

Horn back comb with a carved and pierced top featuring a double row of scrolling foliage, thirteen teeth.

Date: 1840-1870

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 103058

Accession Number: 1943.652

Hair Comb

Horn back comb with a carved and pierced top featuring five abstract leaves, seven teeth.

Date: 1840-1870

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 103059

Accession Number: 1943.654

Hair Comb

Tortoiseshell back comb with a carved and pierced top featuring a curved continuous chain, eight teeth.

Date: 1850-1880

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 103060

Accession Number: 1944.175

Hair Comb

Tortoiseshell back comb with a carved and pierced top featuring a three dimensional coil design, eleven teeth.

Date: 1850-1880

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 103061

Accession Number: 1945.29

Hair Comb

Horn back comb with a plain round top and seven teeth.

Date: 1820-1850

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 103062

Accession Number: 2008.4.6

Hair Comb

Black vulcanite back comb with openwork top and jagged edge, eight teeth.

Date: 1850-1890

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 103063

Accession Number: 1946.491

Hair Comb

Horn back comb with a row of pierced crescent moons at top, seven teeth.

Date: 1830-1880

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 103064

Accession Number: 1946.492

Hair Comb

Tortoiseshell side comb with a carved and pierced top featuring a row of abstract foliage, twenty-five teeth.

Date: 1825-1850

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 103065

Accession Number: 1920.531

Hair Comb

Tortoiseshell side comb with a carved and pierced top featuring flowers within roundels and a row of diamonds, eighteen teeth.

Date: 1825-1850

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 103066

Accession Number: 1920.535

Hair Comb

Tortoiseshell side comb with a carved and pierced top featuring a row of flowers and scrolling foliage, twenty-nine teeth.

Date: 1820-1850

Maker: unknown

Material: tortoise shell

GUSN: 103067

Accession Number: 1928.938

Hair Comb

Tortoiseshell side comb with a carved and pierced top featuring scrolling flowers and foliage, forty-two teeth.

Date: 1825-1850

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 103068

Accession Number: 1924.177

Mother of pearl back comb featuring on the front an scene of Asian men having tea under the trees on the left and two men in a garden on the right. The center of the comb features a shield shape with the monogram "DLR." The reverse is decorated with a floral design.

Date: ca. 1807

Maker: unknown

Material: mother of pearl

GUSN: 103069

Accession Number: 1930.1656

Hair Comb

Horn side comb with molded scroll top and sixteen teeth with ball points.

Date: 1903-

Maker: Kingman, Edward B. (Inventor)

GUSN: 103070

Accession Number: 1946.490

Hair Comb

Tortoiseshell back comb with a pierced top featuring a scrolling floral design, six teeth.

Date: 1870-1910

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 103071

Accession Number: 1955.32

Hair Comb

Black celluloid back comb with a pierced scroll and floral design at top set with faceted jet beads, five teeth.

Date: 1890-1910

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 103072

Accession Number: 1955.31

Hair Comb

Blonde celluloid back comb with a flared pierced top featuring scrolls and set with round faceted colorless glass stones, four teeth.

Date: 1890-1910

Maker: unknown

Material: glass (material)

GUSN: 103073

Accession Number: 1946.843

Hair Comb

Celluloid back comb with a fan shaped pierced top set with round faceted glass stones, four teeth.

Date: 1890-1910

Maker: unknown

Material: glass (material)

GUSN: 103074

Accession Number: 1993.372

Hair Comb

Tortoiseshell back comb with a curved top featuring carved relief cornucopia and grape bunches over a pierced star ground, and carved and pierced foliate edge, thirteen teeth (one missing).

Date: 1825-1850

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 103075

Accession Number: 1973.2

Hair Comb

Horn comb in the form of a moth with a six tooth hinged comb on reverse.

Date: 1870

Maker: Brow, Elias (Inventor)

GUSN: 103076

Accession Number: 1917.192

Comb

Double sided bone comb with very fine teeth.

Date: 1800-1820

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 103077

Accession Number: 1917.945

Hair Comb

Brass back comb with rounded top and nine teeth.

Date: 1800-1825

Maker: unknown

Material: brass (alloy)

GUSN: 103078

Accession Number: 1917.1288

Hair Comb

Curved tortoiseshell back comb with an abstract carved and pierced scrolled foliate design at top, multiple teeth (one missing).

Date: 1825-1840

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 103080

Accession Number: 1920.538

Hair Comb

Curved horn side comb with straight square top and multiple teeth.

Date: 1825-1850

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 103081

Accession Number: 1920.539

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

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