Tortoiseshell back comb with a pierced and carved top featuring scrolling design of multiple flowers, twelve teeth.
Date: 1810-1840
Maker: unknown
Material: tortoise shell
GUSN: 102970
Accession Number: 1927.1082
Horn back comb with a carved and pierced top featuring an urn and flower at the center and scrolled foliage, ten teeth.
Material: horn (animal material)
GUSN: 102971
Accession Number: 1927.1083
Tortoiseshell back comb with a large flared carved and pierced top featuring an abstract floral and foliage design, sixteen teeth.
GUSN: 102972
Accession Number: 1928.935
Carved tortoiseshell back comb with a plain square top with rounded corners and eighteen teeth.
Date: 1820-1850
GUSN: 102973
Accession Number: 1936.473
Tortoiseshell back comb with a plain square top and twenty-three teeth (two missing).
GUSN: 102974
Accession Number: 1937.1143
Tortoiseshell back comb with a plain square top and seventeen teeth.
GUSN: 102975
Accession Number: 1940.242
Curved tortoiseshell back comb with a plain square top and twenty-seven teeth (three missing).
GUSN: 102976
Accession Number: 1934.876
Curved tortoiseshell back comb with a plain square head and thirty-six teeth (two missing)
Date: 1820-1860
GUSN: 102977
Accession Number: 1934.1276
Curved tortoiseshell back comb with a plain square top and thirty-one teeth.
GUSN: 102978
Accession Number: 1937.1245
Curved tortoiseshell back comb with a plain square top and thirty-three teeth.
GUSN: 102979
Accession Number: 1937.1246
Curved tortoiseshell back comb with a plain square top and twenty-eight teeth.
GUSN: 102980
Accession Number: 1929.558
Horn back comb with a plain square head and canted corners and nineteenth teeth (one missing).
GUSN: 102981
Accession Number: 1941.803
Horn back comb with a plain square head and twenty-one teeth (three missing)
GUSN: 102982
Accession Number: 1941.804
Horn back comb with a plain square top and twenty-two teeth.
GUSN: 102983
Accession Number: 1941.805
Tortoiseshell back comb with a plain shaped square top and six teeth.
Date: 1800-1860
GUSN: 102984
Accession Number: 1935.1533
GUSN: 102985
Accession Number: 1935.1534
Tortoiseshell hair comb with trapezoid-shaped top and five teeth.
GUSN: 102986
Accession Number: 1942.786
Dyed horn comb with a plain square top and twenty teeth (two missing).
GUSN: 102987
Accession Number: 1930.1684
Vulcanite or hard rubber back comb in a horseshoe shape, eleven teeth.
Date: 1860-1880
Material: vulcanite, rubber (material), molding (forming)
GUSN: 103089
Accession Number: 1928.901
Tortoiseshell side comb with a molded curved top, multiple teeth.
Date: 1800-1899
GUSN: 103090
Accession Number: 1928.939
GUSN: 103091
Accession Number: 1928.941
Two metal bobby pins in original orange cardboard box.
Date: 1929
Maker: The Hump Hair Pin Manufacturing Co. (Manufacturer)
GUSN: 103092
Accession Number: 1929.441
Horn hinged back comb with a cut steel rosette bead top, seven teeth (one missing).
Date: 1860-1875
GUSN: 103093
Accession Number: 1929.500
Black vulcanite pocket comb with large teeth on left side and smaller teeth on right. "Mauchline Ware" wooden case printed with an image of The Flume at Franconia Notch, NH.
Date: ca. 1874
Material: sycamore (wood)
GUSN: 103094
Accession Number: 1929.1491AB
Sterling silver back comb with a crown shaped top featuring an engraved leaves in center, five teeth.
Date: 1890-1910
Material: silver (metal)
GUSN: 103095
Accession Number: 1929.1493
Pair of tortoiseshell side combs with pierced and carved scrolls at top, each have multiple teeth.
Date: 1950-1900
GUSN: 103096
Accession Number: 1932.1176ab
Celluloid hairpin with two folded leaves at top and a ridged ball at center, two prongs.
Date: 1870-1890
GUSN: 103097
Accession Number: 1934.1228
Horn hinged back comb with seven teeth attached to a winding coil.
Date: 1860-1900
GUSN: 103098
Accession Number: 1934.1939
Pair of celluloid hairpins with gilt and set with cut colorless glass stones.
Date: 1880-1910
Material: glass (material)
GUSN: 103099
Accession Number: 1935.251ab
Metal curved hairpin.
GUSN: 103100
Accession Number: 1935.1034
Dyed horn hairpin with pierced top, two prongs. Broken.
GUSN: 103101
Accession Number: 1935.1040
Tortoiseshell hairpin with a pierced decorative top set with three jet balls and one faceted teardrop ball, two prongs.
GUSN: 103102
Accession Number: 1935.1041
Vulcanite or hard rubber black hair comb with round top and thirteen teeth.
Date: 1860-1870
Maker: R.C. Co. Goodyear (Manufacturer)
GUSN: 103103
Accession Number: 1935.1155
Tortoiseshell hairpin with a pierced and carved top featuring a scrolled heart design, two teeth (one broken).
Date: 1870-1880
GUSN: 103104
Accession Number: 1936.819
Tortoiseshell hairpin with molded twist top, two teeth.
GUSN: 103105
Accession Number: 1936.879
Imitation tortoiseshell celluloid barrette in a rectangle shape with a pierced Greek key design, metal clasp on reverse.
GUSN: 103106
Accession Number: 1937.956
Celluloid barrette in the shape of an arrow with pierced scroll decoration on the point and tail.
GUSN: 103107
Accession Number: 1937.957
Celluloid hairpin of one continuous loop, two teeth.
GUSN: 103108
Accession Number: 1937.959
Celluloid hairpin with square angled top, two teeth.
GUSN: 103109
Accession Number: 1937.960
Celluloid hairpin with a square angled top.
GUSN: 103110
Accession Number: 1937.961
Celluloid hairpin imitating tortoiseshell with a square top and two teeth.
GUSN: 103111
Accession Number: 1937.962
Celluloid hinged hair comb with a crescent top.
GUSN: 103112
Accession Number: 1937.958
Celluloid hairpin imitating tortoiseshell with square top with rounded corners, two teeth.
GUSN: 103113
Accession Number: 1937.963
Tortoiseshell hair pin with a pierced scroll design top, two shaped teeth.
Date: 1880-1890
GUSN: 103114
Accession Number: 1938.18
Black vulcanite or hard rubber back comb with a crescent shaped top with molded bumps, twelve teeth.
Date: 1851
Maker: I.R. Comb Co. (Manufacturer)
GUSN: 103115
Accession Number: 1938.940
Tortoiseshell hairpin with a round top and two shaped teeth.
Date: 1850-1900
GUSN: 103116
Accession Number: 1938.1161
Package of laminated steel hairpins wrapped in pink paper printed with the official seal of the Great Exhibition of 1851 and the company trademark for Kirby, Beard & Co.. One pin secures paper.
Maker: Kirby, Beard & Co. (Manufacturer)
GUSN: 103117
Accession Number: 1939.651
Steel hairpins in original yellow paper packaging, manufacturing label on front.
Maker: D.F. Tayler & Cos. (Manufacturer)
GUSN: 103118
Accession Number: 1939.652
Tortoiseshell back comb with a folded over round top and pierced and carved border of scrolled foliage, five teeth.
Date: 1825-1860
GUSN: 103119
Accession Number: 1940.206
Dyed horn back comb with a folded over round top and pierced and carved border of scrolled foliage, seven teeth.
Date: 1835-1860
GUSN: 103120
Accession Number: 1940.207