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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 [...]
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2011 Combmaking in Scotland by Jen Cruse
PHS comb expert Jen Cruse explores the development of the Scottish comb-making industry. Introduction The craft of fashioning combs changed little over the centuries and never had a high profile in the manufacturing world, being described as ‘one of the most miserable trades’, unexplored and undervalued. But the Invention in 1796 by William Bundy, of [...]