[Bonetools] Fwd: Zahnbürsten

[Etan Ayalon]

Dear Christian,

I can help with your toothbrush in 2 aspects:

1. A toothbrush with a bone handle was excavated in the site Horvat 'Eleq on the Carmel Mountain (south-east of Haifa). This Jewish-Zionist settlement existed only from 1913 to 1922, and the finds included many objects of European origin, as this is where they came from. The brush (photo Etan3 attached) is 15.8 cm long and bears on the underside the inscription "KOH-I-NOR" REGISTERED and GRUNBERG FRIGYES-POZSONY (seems Polish?. See: Boas, A.J. 2000. Pottery and Small Finds from the Late Ottoman Village and the Early Zionist Settlement. In: Y. Hirschfeld, Ramat Hanadiv Excavations. Jerusalem (The Israel Exploration Society), pp. 547-580, the text on the brush - p. 578 (No. 264) (the identification of handle as made of bone - personal communication 7.9.08), the photo: Pl. XIV:1.

2. On a more general scale: Mme. Shiri Slavin (Israeli lady living in Paris) is a known collector and investigator of brushes. She prepared an exhibition and catalogue of part of her collection (also exhibited in my museum a couple of years ago). The 2 attached photos (Etan 1-2) are of bone toothbrushes with boar's hair from turn-of-the-century France, England and USA (she says they came to common use around 1830), from pp. 32-33 in her catalogue: Rozensztroch, D. and Slavin, S. 2005. Brush. (Pointed Leaf Press, LLC) (ISBN 0-9727661-5-4). I'm trying to get her e-mail, but she can probably be found in i-t as she is a photo journalist for the Magazine View.

Best

Etan Ayalon

    

 

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From: bonetools-bounces at listserv.niif.hu [mailto:bonetools-bounces at listserv.niif.hu] On Behalf Of Christian K?chelmann
Sent: Friday, September 05, 2008 12:10 PM
To: BONETOOLS of bone
Cc: Claudia Beese
Subject: [Bonetools] Fwd: Zahnbürsten

 

Dear colleagues,

 

does anybody happen to have information on comparative finds of Early  

Modern Time toothbrushes made of bone?

The attached object has been found recently in the city center of  

Bremen. It is probably dating to the late 18th or to the 19th century.

 

Best

 

Christian

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