[Bonetools] object 16/17th c

[Marloes Rijkelijkhuizen]

Dear all,
 
Thank you for all of your comments! I was thinking about a composite comb too (I have seen many combs with very regular spaced teeth) .There are a just few examples of composite combs in the Netherlands from the late medieval period (14th/15th century), however I haven't seen any later dated examples.. Maybe it is nog very well visible in the photograph, but the upper side is sligthly curved, which is not very useful for a folding ruler I believe. It is made of bone or antler. 
 
Best wishes,
 
Marloes
 
(Steve, it is the same!)

 
> Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2011 08:46:00 +0100
> From: info at bikkelenbeen.nl
> To: bonetools at listserv.niif.hu
> Subject: Re: [Bonetools] object 16/17th c
> 
> 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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