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Tortoiseshell back comb with carved pierced decoration featuring an urn at the center and surrounded by scrolling leaves, twenty teeth (one missing).
combs (hair ornaments)
hair accessories
COMB
2485
Unknown
Probably American
5 3/4 in x 6 1/4 in (HxW) (inches)
1955.22
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