✅ SOLVED Help with brass

[bbheigle0605]

Found this yesterday. Even tho it's nothing special, it's bugging me that I don't know what it is! Could someone help? Thanks in advance!

 

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[taz42o]

Probably a horse mane comb.

 

[bbheigle0605]

Yep that's it! Thank you!

 

[TheCannonballGuy]

It is a piece of a very thick brass comb which was heated for straightening kinky hair. Almost certainly an African-American relic, from the mid-1800s through early-1900s.