VINTAGE ART NOUVEAU FRENCH JET MOURNING HAIR COMB

VINTAGE ART NOUVEAU FRENCH JET MOURNING HAIR COMB (image 1/1)
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THEMED SALE: THE BLACK AND WHITE COLLECTION * AN UNUSUAL LATE VICTORIAN ART NOUVEAU PERIOD MOURNING HAIR COMB ORNAMENTED WITH FACET CUT BEADS IN FRENCH JET Click each image for larger view VISIT MY EBAY STORE FOR MORE BARGAINS IN HAIR ORNAMENTS, EXOTIC TEXTILES, ETHNIC JEWELLERY AND MUCH MORE CLICK THE LINK AT THE TOP OF THIS PAGE! This collection of antique and vintage hair accessories in blacks, whites, silver and pearl pays tribute to one of the key themes seen on the catwalks for this season in haute couture. Staying with the *black* theme this sale is for a fine black vulcanite mourning comb in the Art Nouveau style and dating from the late 19th or early 20th century. SIZE AND CONDITION: 3 ins high x 4 ins wide and good vintage condition. This fine mourning comb is made in black vulcanite and has a scalloped heading with a floral theme in the unmistakable Art Nouveau taste. It is further embellished with spherical beads in faceted French jet. French jet is a glittering form of black glass which has nothing to do with France, but was produced mainly in Bohemia, now part of modern Czechoslovakia, in the late 19th and early 20th century when it was extremely popular for jewellery making. Entire combs were made from pieces of this material, massed to give an heavy encrusted effect. Picture 7 is an engraving of a jet comb taken read more
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