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Elsa Tennhardt and E. & J. Bass Company

Comb

Designed 1928

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Comb

Designed 1928

Physical Qualities Silver plate, copper alloy, glass, 8 × 1 7/16 in. (20.3 × 3.7 cm.)
Credit Line Gift of Gretchen and Roger Redden, Baltimore
Object Number 2023.100
Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 2022; Roger Duffy (1932-2008) and Gretchen Matilda Sause Redden (b. 1936), Baltimore, MD
Stern, Jewel, Tucker, Kevin W. and Venable, Charles L. "Modernism in American Silver: 20th-Century Design," Yale University Press, 2005, p. 72, fig. 3.20.

Inscribed: See text entry

Designer

Elsa Tennhardt

American, born Germany, 1899-1980

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Manufacturer

E. & J. Bass Company

American, c.1890-1930

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