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 [...]
No trader who knows his business needs instructions in the fact that his fancy-goods department provides of the the readiest turn-overs in his business. It is in this department that the buyer sees "something which catches her eye". In it, too, she very frequently has to find those personal and toilet goods which she needs [...]
MAKING COMBS FOR EVE. New Use For Skimmed Milk. WORLD SUPPLIED BY ABERDEEN A long and interesting connection with the Aberdeen Comb Works will come to an end this month with the retirement of Mr John Morrison, 13 Beechgrove Terrace. Mr Morrison has been engaged – mainly on the commercial side - with the Aberdeen [...]
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 [...]