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Horn comb with a thin square top and eighteen teeth.
combs (hair ornaments)
hair accessories
Comb, Hair
Comb, Hair
2433
Unknown
Probably American
2 1/2 x 5 1/4 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Mrs. S. Parkman Blake
1922.309
Pictured in Clark, Hazel Barker, "Our Colonial Comb Industry," Old-Time New England vol. XLI, no. 2 (1950): 41-45.
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