Horn Strip Comb
Horn Strip Comb
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- Description
- Charles Phillips, foreman cutter at the Noyes Comb Co. in Binghamton, N.Y., cut this set of combs from a piece of animal horn. Phillips’ granddaughter, Dorothy White, gave it to the Smithsonian in 1936.
- Ref: Perry Walton, Comb Making in America (1925).
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- Horn Strip Comb
- place made
- United States: New York, Binghamton
- Associated Place
- United States: New Jersey
- Measurements
- overall: 5 in x 1 11/16 in x 1/8 in; 12.7 cm x 4.28625 cm x.3175 cm
- ID Number
- AG.A.6154
- catalog number
- A.6154
- accession number
- 141121
- Credit Line
- Dorothy White
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- Medicine and Science: Chemistry
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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