1887 The comb-making process at Messrs. Stewart & Co. of Aberdeen
Comb-making is necessarily a prominent and extensive industry, in which a considerable variety of materials are employed, the most common being the horns and boots of cattle, tortoise-shell, ivory, box-wood, vulcanite or hardened Indian-rubber, and to a small extent German silver and other metals. Of these materials horn is by far the most extensively employed, and [...]