Historic New England

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

Small gilded metal side comb with three rosettes and a wavy border at top, fifteen teeth.

Date: 1800-1820

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 103082

Accession Number: 1920.540

Pocket Comb

Bone jack knife style pocket comb with a vulcanite case featuring a cornucopia, eagle with shield and spray of flowers in relief on one side, and a standing George Washington in relief on the other.

Date: 1850-1873

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 103083

Accession Number: 1921.177

Pair of Side Combs

Pair of horn side combs with folded over tops featuring a pierced abstract shape and carved scroll line design, thirty-two teeth on comb A, thirty-three teeth on comb B (one missing).

Date: 1860-1900

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 103084

Accession Number: 1925.563ab

Hair Comb

Vulcanite back comb with a row of nine graduated ivory balls at top, eight teeth.

Date: 1860-1870

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 103085

Accession Number: 1925.820

Hair Comb

Celluloid hinged back comb with a flared wing shaped top featuring a pierced geometric design, center top set with a horn rosette, seven teeth.

Date: 1860-1880

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 103086

Accession Number: 1927.967

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