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<p class=MsoPlainText dir=LTR style='text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:
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Christian,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText dir=LTR style='text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:
embed'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>I can
help with your toothbrush in 2 aspects:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>1. A</span></font></st1:metricconverter>
toothbrush with a bone handle was excavated in the site Horvat 'Eleq on the <st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Carmel</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Mountain</st1:PlaceType>
(south-east of <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Haifa</st1:place></st1:City>).
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 <st1:metricconverter ProductID="15.8 cm" w:st="on">15.8
cm</st1:metricconverter> 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 <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Ottoman</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Village</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>
and the Early Zionist Settlement. In: Y. Hirschfeld, <i><span style='font-style:
italic'>Ramat Hanadiv Excavations</span></i>. <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City
w:st="on">Jerusalem</st1:City></st1:place> (The <st1:country-region w:st="on">Israel</st1:country-region>
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.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText dir=LTR style='text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:
embed'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>2. On a
more general scale: Mme. Shiri Slavin (Israeli lady living in <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Paris</st1:place></st1:City>) 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-<st1:metricconverter
ProductID="33 in" w:st="on">33 in</st1:metricconverter> her catalogue:
Rozensztroch, D. and Slavin, S. 2005. <i><span style='font-style:italic'>Brush</span></i>.
(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.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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Ayalon<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoPlainText dir=LTR style='text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:
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Message-----<br>
From: bonetools-bounces@listserv.niif.hu
[mailto:bonetools-bounces@listserv.niif.hu] On Behalf Of Christian K?chelmann<br>
Sent: Friday, September 05, 2008 12:10 PM<br>
To: BONETOOLS of bone<br>
Cc: Claudia Beese<br>
Subject: [Bonetools] Fwd: Zahnbürsten</span></font></p>
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colleagues</span></font><span dir=RTL></span><span lang=HE dir=RTL><span
dir=RTL></span>,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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anybody happen to have information on comparative finds of Early</span></font><span
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Time toothbrushes made of bone</span></font><span dir=RTL></span><span lang=HE
dir=RTL><span dir=RTL></span>?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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attached object has been found recently in the city center of</span></font><span
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embed'><st1:State w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>Bremen</span></font></st1:place></st1:State>. It is
probably dating to the late 18th or to the 19th century<span dir=RTL></span><span
lang=HE dir=RTL><span dir=RTL></span>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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30, D-28217 <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Bremen</st1:City>, <st1:country-region
w:st="on">Germany</st1:country-region></st1:place></span></font><span lang=HE
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