A FEDERAL CARVED TORTOISE-SHELL COMB

AMERICAN OR CARRIBEAN ISLANDS, RETAILED IN BOSTON, 1790-1810

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A FEDERAL CARVED TORTOISE-SHELL COMB
AMERICAN OR CARRIBEAN ISLANDS, RETAILED IN BOSTON, 1790-1810
Appears to be in its original band box, which bears the label "Mark Worthley Manufacturer of Band and Fancy Boxes 119 Washington Street Boston". The box is inscribed in ink on the bottom Comb of Katharina Adams Fenno 1800 great great grandmother of/Property of Bertha Hubert Stringer
7 ¼ in. high, 7 ¾ in. wide

Provenance

Descended in the Adams/Fenno family to the current owner

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Lot Essay

Based on the inscription, this impressive comb was probably owned by Catherine Noyes Adams (b. 1785 Newbury) who married William Fenno in Boston in 1806. However, it may have belonged to her mother, Catherine Fenno (1763-1803), who married Samuel Adams (1759-1796) in Boston in 1781.

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