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Dear all,<BR>
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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. <BR>
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Best wishes,<BR>
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Marloes<BR>
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(Steve, it is the same!)<BR>
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> Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2011 08:46:00 +0100<BR>> From: info@bikkelenbeen.nl<BR>> To: bonetools@listserv.niif.hu<BR>> Subject: Re: [Bonetools] object 16/17th c<BR>> <BR>> Hello everybody,<BR>> <BR>> My name is Monica Tielens from the Netherlands. Since a year or so I am<BR>> reading this mailing list. I find it very interesting because I am a bone<BR>> carver. When I saw the picture at first I had the same idea, ruler or<BR>> piece of a composite comb. But it is to regular for a composite comb, and<BR>> you see that the maker has made a mistake in making it regular, just a<BR>> little bit right from the middle part. If you are making a comb you are<BR>> not doing this. The angle is different. And what my opinion is that there<BR>> has been no composite combs in the Netherlands in the 16th and 17th<BR>> century but perhaps Marloes knows more about this period.<BR>> <BR>> Greetings Monica Tielens<BR>> Bikkel en Been<BR>> <BR>> > Of course, the comb hypothesis makes total sense. Marloes - did such<BR>> > composite combs exist in the 16th-17th century?<BR>> ><BR>> > Alice<BR>> ><BR>> > 2011/2/21 Bénédicte Khan <benedicte.khan@gmail.com><BR>> ><BR>> >> Hello Marlos and Alice,<BR>> >><BR>> >> I know there are wooden equivalents existing where several of these<BR>> >> where<BR>> >> attached together so it would be a bigger ruler when needed and then<BR>> >> could<BR>> >> be shortened by folding one back on another. But I must admit that the<BR>> >> piece<BR>> >> you sent seems a little too short to belong to such a system.. But why<BR>> >> not?<BR>> >> Moreover, the fact that the sides are not flat does bug me a little,<BR>> >> because it could be hard to measure properly with a non straight ruler..<BR>> >><BR>> >> It looks a lot more like the central part of a composite comb to me, as<BR>> >> those found in Roman and Medieval contexts. Indeed, there is a part of a<BR>> >> composite comb found in France that wears almost the same marks (though<BR>> >> it<BR>> >> is more decorated, the cuts on the longest sides are definitely there).<BR>> >> You<BR>> >> can find it in J.C Beal's catalogue *Les objets de tabletterie antique<BR>> >> du<BR>> >> musée archéologique de Nîmes, *1984. N°384.<BR>> >><BR>> >> Here's the object I'm talking about: the cuts may not be as regular as<BR>> >> yours, but I hope this might still help.<BR>> >><BR>> >> Sincerely,<BR>> >><BR>> >> Bénédicte.<BR>> >><BR>> >><BR>> >> 2011/2/21 Alice Choyke <h13017cho@iif.hu><BR>> >><BR>> >> Dear Marlos,<BR>> >>> It does look like a ruler in some manufacturing process where large<BR>> >>> and small units of equal size need to be marked out. You do have the<BR>> >>> most<BR>> >>> interesting objects. I wonder if there is some modern equivelent in<BR>> >>> metal?<BR>> >>><BR>> >>> Alice<BR>> >>><BR>> >>> On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 7:41 PM, Marloes Rijkelijkhuizen <<BR>> >>> marloesrijkelijkhuizen@hotmail.com> wrote:<BR>> >>><BR>> >>>> Dear all,<BR>> >>>><BR>> >>>> Any suggestions? (16th/17th century AD).<BR>> >>>><BR>> >>>> Best, Marloes<BR>> >>>><BR>> >>>><BR>> >>>> _______________________________________________<BR>> >>>> Bonetools mailing list<BR>> >>>> Bonetools@listserv.niif.hu<BR>> >>>> https://listserv.niif.hu/mailman/listinfo/bonetools<BR>> >>>><BR>> >>>><BR>> >>><BR>> >>> _______________________________________________<BR>> >>> Bonetools mailing list<BR>> >>> Bonetools@listserv.niif.hu<BR>> >>> https://listserv.niif.hu/mailman/listinfo/bonetools<BR>> >>><BR>> >>><BR>> >><BR>> >> _______________________________________________<BR>> >> Bonetools mailing list<BR>> >> Bonetools@listserv.niif.hu<BR>> >> https://listserv.niif.hu/mailman/listinfo/bonetools<BR>> >><BR>> >><BR>> > _______________________________________________<BR>> > Bonetools mailing list<BR>> > Bonetools@listserv.niif.hu<BR>> > https://listserv.niif.hu/mailman/listinfo/bonetools<BR>> ><BR>> <BR>> <BR>> _______________________________________________<BR>> Bonetools mailing list<BR>> Bonetools@listserv.niif.hu<BR>> https://listserv.niif.hu/mailman/listinfo/bonetools<BR> </body>
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