Certificate of Incorporation on change of name whereas THE ABERDEEN COMBWORKS COMPANY, LIMITED was incorporated as a limited company under the Companies Acts, 1862 to 1898, on the Fifteenth day of April, 1899, And Whereas by SPECIAL RESOLUTION of the Company and with the approval of the BOARD OF TRADE it has changed its name. [...]
1971 was marked by the introduction of decimal currency in the United Kingdom, but also by tough times. By May 1971, inflation sat at 9.9%
The Worshipful Company of Horners, in collaboration with the Plastics Historical Society (PHS) and the Museum of Design in Plastics (MoDiP), organized an exhibition titled "Horn an Everyday Plastic" to showcase their remarkable collections of horn artifacts. The exhibition was held at London Metropolitan University's Frederick Parker Gallery from July 10th to September 5th, 2012. [...]
The origin of combs is one of the many things to which no date dare be fixed. Suffice it to say that the oldest of Egyption monuments bear testimony to the existence of the comb as an article of everyday use, though the teeth, in their little bit of boxwood, were rude and few compared [...]
The Aberdeen Combworks Company Limited is the oldest comb making firm in Great Britain, having been in existence over 140 years. The basic material for combs in use at that time was horn, and skilled craftsmen still fashion articles in horn today, although the supply of that material is rapidly diminishing. As other articles were [...]