Folding Pocket Comb
name: label: Associated Name
content: Transportation Security Administration
notes: label: Description
content: This novelty comb surrendered to TSA screeners at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport was prohibited most likely because of its resemblance to a folding knife when the comb is not ejected.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: web subject
content: Air Travel
setName: label: See more items in
content: Military and Society: Armed Forces History, General
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content: Transportation
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content: September 11
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Transportation Security Administration
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2011.3058.26
label: catalog number
content: 2011.3058.26
label: nonaccession number
content: 2011.3058
objectType: label: Object Name
content: comb
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: steel (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: cardboard (packaging material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 5 in x 1 1/4 in x 3/4 in; 12.7 cm x 3.175 cm x 1.905 cm
label: Measurements
content: in box: 6 in x 1 1/4 in x 3/4 in; 15.24 cm x 3.175 cm x 1.905 cm