[Bonetools] object 16/17th c

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Hello everybody,

My name is Monica Tielens from the Netherlands. Since a year or so I am
reading this mailing list. I find it very interesting because I am a bone
carver. When I saw the picture at first I had the same idea, ruler or
piece of a composite comb. But it is to regular for a composite comb, and
you see that the maker has made a mistake in making it regular, just a
little bit right from the middle part. If you are making a comb you are
not doing this. The angle is different. And what my opinion is that there
has been no composite combs in the Netherlands in the 16th and 17th
century but perhaps Marloes knows more about this period.

Greetings Monica Tielens
Bikkel en Been

> Of course, the comb hypothesis makes total sense. Marloes - did such
> composite combs exist in the 16th-17th century?
>
> Alice
>
> 2011/2/21 Bénédicte Khan <benedicte.khan at gmail.com>
>
>> Hello Marlos and Alice,
>>
>> I know there are wooden equivalents existing where several of these
>> where
>> attached together so it would be a bigger ruler when needed and then
>> could
>> be shortened by folding one back on another. But I must admit that the
>> piece
>> you sent seems a little too short to belong to such a system.. But why
>> not?
>> Moreover, the fact that the sides are not flat does bug me a little,
>> because it could be hard to measure properly with a non straight ruler..
>>
>> It looks a lot more like the central part of a composite comb to me, as
>> those found in Roman and Medieval contexts. Indeed, there is a part of a
>> composite comb found in France that wears almost the same marks (though
>> it
>> is more decorated, the cuts on the longest sides are definitely there).
>> You
>> can find it in J.C Beal's catalogue *Les objets de tabletterie antique
>> du
>> musée archéologique de Nîmes, *1984. N°384.
>>
>> Here's the object I'm talking about: the cuts may not be as regular as
>> yours, but I hope this might still help.
>>
>> Sincerely,
>>
>> Bénédicte.
>>
>>
>> 2011/2/21 Alice Choyke <h13017cho at iif.hu>
>>
>>  Dear Marlos,
>>>     It does look like a ruler in some manufacturing process where large
>>> and small units of equal size need to be marked out. You do have the
>>> most
>>> interesting objects. I wonder if there is some modern equivelent in
>>> metal?
>>>
>>> Alice
>>>
>>>   On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 7:41 PM, Marloes Rijkelijkhuizen <
>>> marloesrijkelijkhuizen at hotmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>>   Dear all,
>>>>
>>>> Any suggestions?  (16th/17th century AD).
>>>>
>>>> Best, Marloes
>>>>
>>>>
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