Name/Title
"Three Beat" HairbrushEntry/Object ID
2025.1.46Description
A small handled hairbrush with a one-piece molded blue plastic body — a flat, slightly tapering head running into a straight handle. The head holds a narrow field of bristle tufts in several lengthwise rows; the bristles are ivory colored and stand fairly tall and sparse, with a number splayed or bent and some loose hair caught among them from use. The handle is embossed "three Beat" ("three" in lowercase, "Beat" with a capital B). No size, country, or other text is present. The piece is an everyday mass-produced grooming brush rather than a dressing-table or decorative brush.Use
Personal item of María A. Arús Caraballo.Collection
The Cabrera Arús family collection, Gertrudis Caraballo Gálvez collecitionMade/Created
Notes
MAKER: Marked "three Beat" (brand as embossed). The manufacturer is not identified; a targeted search did not turn up any documented "
DATE / PERIOD: Not marked; undetermined. The bright glossy plastic points to a mid-to-late twentieth-century date. No later than 1984, as María A. Cabrera Arús took a similar one to school in that year.
ORIGIN: Unknown. Nothing on the brush indicates where it was made.Inscription/Signature/Marks
Notes
"three Beat" embossed on the handle.Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Person or Organization
María A. Arús CaraballoNotes
ownerRelated Places
Place
City
HavanaCountry
CubaRegion
Caribbean, Central AmericaNotes
usePlace
State/Province
New JerseyCountry
U.S.A.Continent
North AmericaNotes
useResearch Notes
Notes
The object is an ordinary personal hairbrush of inexpensive plastic construction, the kind produced in large numbers through the mid-to-late twentieth century. The embossed "Three Beat" reads as a brand or model name, but it does not match any documented brush maker found in a targeted search, so it should be recorded as the mark present rather than as an attributed manufacturer.
As an everyday grooming item showing genuine use, the brush fits the pattern of ordinary personal goods retained well beyond the point most would be discarded, consistent with the household economy of saving serviceable items. Nothing about it ties it to the specific acquisition channels associated with the shaving items examined earlier, so its provenance should be left unrecorded unless separate documentation exists.Created By
María A. Cabrera ArúsCreate Date
September 18, 2025Updated By
María A. Cabrera ArúsUpdate Date
June 18, 2026
