Featured Highly Unusual Example of Uniquely Asian Bamboo Craft

I think it isn't a cricket cage...'tho a cricket could live in it, I suppose. I believe it is a pair of combs...for the hair that grows above the ears.
The most wonderful part of them is that they will fit together in maybe half a dozen ways, but there are at least 2 of those that allow a near perfect fit! There are 45 points on each (of course)...which divides evenly 8 times into 360 degrees. Whether the crafty carver used those indexes in his work is open to question...but there are so many indicators that testify to his/her profound skill and knowledge of the materials at their disposal...every time I hold it, take it apart & reassemble it, I'm awe-struck afresh...bewildered! it's ~2" diameter, an' ~2" tall; weight is a bit over 19 grams.

Have any of you seen the like? Can anyone say with a degree of certainty where it was made...and even better, when? If I were to offer a guess (an' that's all it would be) it would be the Philippines.
As always, I'm grateful for your attention, and your informed comments! Thanks for lookin'!

 

I'd be interested to know, because I have the bottom/top (?) of one of these. It was identified as a comb, but that was only half of what this is, and I did have doubts...never did find out what it was, and have no idea where it is now.

 

Similar items...

https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/antique-shaker-wooden-round-wool-1850639336

https://www.etsy.com/listing/890047...mb&ref=sr_gallery-3-37&organic_search_click=1

 

This pair is of wood rather than bamboo, with "patent applied for" stamps:

https://www.etsy.com/listing/126854...how_sold_out_detail=1&ref=nla_listing_details

 

also seeing these as wool combs; it would be coincidental that the pieces happen to "marry" together due to the tooth design

19th Century Primitive SHAKER Hand Carved Round Bamboo Wool Comb Set - Excellent | #1833678699 (worthpoint.com)

 

Holly beat me to it. I even got up early today! I have one that I have kept for when i do needle felting and use raw wool.

 

The machine-made combs aren't, of course...nor do I believe my pair were individually carved an' just happen to match so finely; There's the same lathe-work on each half. But I'll agree that the 'Shaker' examples put the probability of mine having been made in the Philippines a whole lot lower.

I wasn't aware that Shakers worked in bamboo...that will require a bit of deeper digging.

 

Great, Lark! May we see pics, please?