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| Title | Back Comb |
| Object Name | Back Comb |
| Manufactured By | United Comb and Novelty
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| Description | Faux tortoiseshell back comb. |
| Date Manufactured | 1890-1950 |
| Material | Cellulose Nitrate |
| Manufacturing Process | Hair combs were made from celluloid sheets cut with a blanking press into comb-shaped blanks that were then worked and shaped by machine and hand to make finished products. Cellulose nitrate could be colored or patterned to imitate many materials, as in this case with tortoise shell. “Teeth were formed either by cutting out the waste material between, or in a “twinning” procedure more economical of material, by cutting a wide zigzag down the middle of a double blank that separated to form two combs.” Jeffrey Meikle, American Plastic, p. 24 |
| Number of Objects | 1 |
| Accession Number | 2003.575 |
| Donor | Gift of National Plastics Center. |
| Broad Subject | Clothing, Jewelry and Accessories
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| Subjects | Hair combs
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| For More Information | Please address inquires to the Public Services Librarian, Special Collections Research Center, Syracuse University Library (e-mail: scrc@syr.edu, tel. 315-443-2697). |
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| staff notes | Negligible Sweating |
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