Regency Tortoiseshell and Cut Steel Hair Comb with a Shooting Star feed-gender-unisex setting up his own workshop

setting up his own workshop in Montreal

which confused and bewitched the Duke who witnessed it

Deco rings of this design and quality are hard to find

The flowers are surmounted by a tiny diamond leaf

Regency Tortoiseshell and Cut Steel Hair Comb with a Shooting Star feed-gender-unisex setting up his own workshopMade of tortoiseshell and cut steel, this early 19th century comb was designed as an ornamental piece for the back of a Lady's hair. The stunning design features a depiction of the Great Comet of 1811, also known as Napoleon's Comet, which dazzled the sky for almost a year with its massive coma measuring over a million miles. Many saw it as a portent of Napoleon's plans to invade Russia and the war that followed in 1812. The Regency period saw the