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Comb, tortoise shell, 19th century, front view
Comb, tortoise shell, 19th century, front view

Comb, tortoise shell, 19th century, front view

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Irma G. Bowen Historic Clothing Collection

19th century. Large tortoise shell hair comb in the style of a Spanish peineta (as worn with a mantilla veil) with intricately hand-cut floral designs and sixteen teeth. Handmade.

The Irma G. Bowen Historic Clothing Collection digital catalog was produced by the UNH Library Digital Collection Initiative, supported in part by a grant from the Mooseplate program and New Hampshire..

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The Irma G. Bowen Historic Clothing Collection digital catalog was produced by the UNH Library Digital Collection Initiative, supported in part by a grant from the Mooseplate program and New Hampshire State Council on the Arts. Additional funding provided by the E. Ruth Buxton Stephenson Memorial Fund.

Photography copyright, Astrida Schaeffer.

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Astrida Schaeffer, photographer/curator

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Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/

Length: 20 cm / 7.875 in.


Width: 17.8 cm / 7 in.

JPG

Tortoiseshell

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