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Tortoiseshell comb, carved and engraved

Public Health & Hygiene

1801-1900

Large comb with 27 teeth, made of wood, paddle-sha

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1881-1925

Cane comb with 13 prongs, paddle-shaped, secured a

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1881-1910

Comb, paddle-shaped, with 8 prongs, made of cane w

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1871-1910

Comb made of cane and secured by fibre with blue b

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1881-1925

Flat wooden comb with 28 fine prongs, and handle d

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1881-1910

Ivory snuff spoon with hairpin handle, crescent sh

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1880-1920

Black comb, paddle-shaped, with 11 prongs, made of

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1871-1920

Flat wooden comb with twelve long prongs, and hand

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1871-1925

Tortoiseshell comb, folds into a sheath in the form of a Mexican male figure

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

Netsuke of Rakan arranging or shampooing hair of Oni

Asian Medicine

1701-1900

Horn powder bottle for wig powder, screw-on base and cap, probably English, 18th century

Horn powder bottle for wig powder

Public Health & Hygiene

1701-1800

Black comb, made of cane with 14 prongs, decorated

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1881-1930

4-pronged comb with woven fibre handle from New He

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1881-1910

Black comb, paddle-shaped, with 12 prongs, made of

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1871-1910

Horn powder bottle containing white wig powder, screw cap base and neck, probably English, 18th century

Horn powder bottle containing white wig powder

Public Health & Hygiene

1701-1800

Large wooden comb with 25 prongs, from Samoa, 1881

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1881-1920

Small cane comb with 22 prongs, handle decorated w

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1881-1925

Glass bottle, labelled Truefitt's Quinine and Arnica Hair Wash

Public Health & Hygiene

1851-1905

Wooden comb decorated with ivory

Public Health & Hygiene

1801-1900

Folding double comb

Public Health & Hygiene

1801-1900

Flat wooden comb, with 16 teeth and piereed and ca

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1871-1910

Black comb, paddle-shaped, with 22 prongs, made of

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1871-1910

Glass bottle, labelled Erasmus Wilson's celebrated Hair Wash,with royal warrant

Public Health & Hygiene

Whalebone hair curlers, 6

Public Health & Hygiene

Cane comb, Solomon Islands

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

Comb, with 10 long prongs made of wood, with decor

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1881-1910

Black comb, paddle-shaped, with 12 prongs, made of

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1871-1920

Horn comb, reputedly dug up in London, English, 19th century

Horn comb, reputedly dug up in London

Public Health & Hygiene

1801-1900

Carton of hair brush cleaner, by John Hassall, 64 St. Paul's Churchyard, London, England.

Hair brush cleaner

Public Health & Hygiene

Double-sided ivory comb with toilet implement slotting through handle which also contains cosmetic box, comb decorated with fretted panels over mirror and glass, Indian, 1880-1920

Double-sided ivory comb with toilet implement

Public Health & Hygiene

1880-1920

Wooden double comb, painted black, reputedly Portuguese, 19th century

Wooden double comb, painted black

Public Health & Hygiene

1801-1900

Painted wooden double comb, reputedly Russian, 19th century

Painted wooden double comb

Public Health & Hygiene

1801-1900

Spanish barber's chair, 18th century

Public Health & Hygiene

1770-1850

Pottery wig curler, reputedly English, 1601-1750

Public Health & Hygiene

1601-1750

Small wooden chest, rectangular, with separate lid, containing 2 empty bottles of hair wash prepared by Erasmus Wilson and Truefitt, English, 1851-1905

Small wooden chest

Public Health & Hygiene

1851-1905

Double comb which opens to form four combs, wood, reputedly Portuguese, 19th century

Double comb which opens to form four combs

Public Health & Hygiene

1801-1900

Pomade brush, probably Italian, 17th century

Public Health & Hygiene

1601-1700

Comb, bone, Roman, from Pompeii, 10-79AD

Public Health & Hygiene

10-79

Wooden comb, wide-pronged, with arched handle, engraved with stylized flower and leaf design and Islamic script, from Middle East, 1801-1900

Wooden comb, wide-pronged, with arched handle, eng

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1801-1900

Bottle of bay rum and cantharidin, by William Toogood Ltd., Mermaid Court, 165A Borough High Street, London, SE1, England. Supplied by Savory and Moore, 29 Chapel Street, London, SW1.

Bottle of bay rum and cantharidin, by William Toog

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

Bottle of scalp lotion, by the Crookes Laboratories Ltd., Park Royal, London, NW10, England.

Bottle of scalp lotion, by the Crookes Laboratorie

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

Pottery wig curler, reputedly English, 1660-1800

Public Health & Hygiene

1660-1800

Pottery wig curler, reputedly English, 1660-1800

Public Health & Hygiene

1660-1800

Horn bottle ovoid body, splayed base, concave neck, cylindrical screw cap, used for wig powder

Horn bottle with ovoid body and splayed base

Public Health & Hygiene

Flat rectangular wooden comb with fine prongs both ends, inscribed China, but probably from New Caledonia, 1880-1920

Flat rectangular wooden comb with fine prongs both

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1880-1920