Hair Comb

Clothing/Dress/Costume

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Historic Germantown

Name/Title

Hair Comb

Entry/Object ID

CW 725

Description

Comb. Decorative hair comb; curved high; large size; tortoise shell; designed for high hair arrangements. Worn by Catherine Pugh. Poor condition; end tooth broken and missing; two other tooth tips broken. Circa 1820. Transcribed from original accession record.

Collection

Germantown Historical Society Objects

Made/Created

Place

* Untyped Place

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Dimensions

Height

4-1/2 in

Width

7 in

Depth

3-1/4 in