Viking Decorated Bone Combs and Handles, The Yorkshire Museum, York
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𝙸𝚗𝚍𝚒𝚊𝚗 𝚑𝚊𝚒𝚛 𝚌𝚘𝚖𝚋𝚜 𝚘𝚏 𝚝𝚑𝚎 19𝚝𝚑 – 20𝚝𝚑 𝚌𝚎𝚗𝚝𝚞𝚛𝚒𝚎𝚜. 🇮🇳
𝙵𝚊𝚋𝚕𝚎𝚜 & 𝙵𝚊𝚒𝚛𝚢𝚝𝚊𝚕𝚎𝚜 - 𝙳𝚎𝚗𝚒𝚣 𝙺𝚞𝚛𝚝𝚎𝚕 𝚁𝚎𝚖𝚒𝚡 𝚋𝚢 𝙽/𝚊, 𝚁𝚘𝚜𝚒𝚗𝚊
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I think the time of combs with ungulates on them has officially come to an end, but I will always have a soft spot in my heart for the combs of the Louvre. This one looks like a church, and has little panels that slide open to reveal a pair of tiny mirrors. Considering it’s in wood and the other combs I’ve looked at have been mostly bone, it’s in great shape.
[ID: A two sided comb, with fine tines on one side and wider tines on the other; it has a lot of intricate piecework carving in oblong patterns, making it look like the inside of a gothic church. Two panels on the central handle protrude from the comb’s sides; they have been slid apart to reveal two metal discs, which when oiled would serve as little mirrors.]
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www.instagram.com/officialnatalina
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Ornamental Hair Combs
1800-1819, Napoleonic era
Goldstein Museum of Design
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Herbert West (Re-animator 1985)
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The earliest full sentence from the earliest alphabet has been found scratched into an ivory comb. Now, what would be written on a 3,700-year-old comb?
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It seems combs have at long last moved on from ungulates; now there’s a party in your hair!
The inscription, according to the Louvre -- translated from the Greek to French to English-via-Google -- reads "Long live the Fortune of Helladia and the Blues. Amen." Helladia and the Blues is the name of my psychedelic jam band.
[ID: A two-sided comb with very fine teeth on one side and thicker, further-apart teeth on the other; most of the thicker teeth are missing, and the finer ones are frequently broken off unevenly. The handle, between the two sides, depicts a woman, centrally, in an archway; to the right is another woman, and both are clearly dancing, while to the right is a man who looks like he’s working a keyboard (it’s not actually a keyboard).]
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Combs
"Fixin' to knock a bitch out"-Combs
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