A Late 18thC Whale Bone & Ebony Wig Scratcher c.1780 sub-Curios The cinema stills included are

The cinema stills included are mostly MGM copyright including titles such as Jumbo

the dogs do have some very small areas of loss to their gilded decoration and to the plasterwork beneath

Having four painted panelled doors with brass knob handles and lozenge shaped moulding under a reeded cornice with dentil ornament

Pieces retaining untouched original paint are becoming increasingly scarce

A Late 18thC Whale Bone & Ebony Wig Scratcher c.1780 sub-Curios The cinema stills included areOrigin: English Period: George III Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1780 Length: 16 Width: 1 (at hand) The wonderfully tactile wig or back scratcher of particularly long size, the elegant hand crafted in whale bone to an ebony handle terminating in a knop, the whole surviving from the last quarter of the eighteenth century. The piece is in very good original order which is hard to find with examples of this type and has a superb patina. Large wigs were