Antique hair combs of paste, silver and faux amber celluloid

Antique hair combs of paste, silver and faux amber celluloid

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Antique hair combs of paste, silver and faux amber celluloid

The sophisticated, Mantilla style antique hair combs, popular with high society ladies in the early 1900s crafted from faux amber celluloid, each has five undulating “pins” or teeth surmounted by a large oval shaped cap of silver with an elaborate geometric lattice design to the surface, handset with round colourless paste in the millegrain edged settings.

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Antique Jewellery Collection

20009861

Condition
Very good
Origin
Great Britain
Period
Early 1900s

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Detail of Antique hair combs of paste, silver and faux amber celluloid

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