comb (hair ornaments)

Tortoisesell Comb with it's own cardboard box. Late 19th century, Spain. A very large comb, cut from tortoise-shell (concave-convex) with 9 short curved teeth. The decoration on the handle (open work) resembles a coronet with five points each headed up with a disc. The interstices are filled with a pattern of four petalled florets while the interstices between the discs are filled with a more complex design involving leaves. Presented in it’s own cardboard box.
L 9 ½”, teeth 3”.
W top 9”, W teeth 3 ½”.
W base of handle 5”.

object
MUSEUM NUMBER
28.11.53/3
PLACE
COLLECTION
MEASUREMENTS
overall: 249 mm x 243 mm x 49 mm
MATERIAL/TECHNIQUE
tortoiseshell
CATEGORY
Anthropology: Ethnography
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