Hairbrush
date: label: date made
content: early 1940s
name: label: maker
content: Fuller Brush Company
notes: label: Description
content: Hairbrush in a cardboard box with “FULLER BRISTLECOMB / BRISTLED WITH ‘FULLERON’” and “THE FULLER BRUSH COMPANY—HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT” inscriptions. "Fulleron" was the Fuller Brush Company tradename for nylon. According to a notice published in 1935, “The practical, penetrating Fuller Bristlecomb combines both hair brush and comb in one” According to advertisements from 1947, “Bristlecomb is made only by the Fuller Brush Co. and is sold only by the Fuller Dealer who conveniently calls at your home.”
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Connecticut, Hartford
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
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content: Health & Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of David Sabin
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2018.0090.03
label: patent number
content: 1,628,299
label: accession number
content: 2018.0090
label: catalog number
content: 2018.0090.03
objectType: label: Object Name
content: brush, hair
label: Object Name
content: hairbrush
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (packaging material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (brush material)
label: Physical Description
content: nylon (brush material)
label: Measurements
content: overall, box: 4 cm x 20.8 cm x 6.1 cm; 1 9/16 in x 8 3/16 in x 2 13/32 in