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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 11228716, member: 2844&quot;]19th century Spanish combs were no bigger than combs from other European countries. And they were often much smaller than this one.</p><p><br /></p><p>Some sellers also call big combs Spanish, even if they are clearly French, Austrian or Dutch. They don&#039;t know how fashions and regional dress evolve and they don&#039;t care to do any research.</p><p>Most of the tall and wide caps and hair ornaments that we have come to know as characteristic of regional European dress, only grew to such proportions after 1900.</p><p><br /></p><p>An example from Seville, from an 1870s etching by Gustave Doré, with a modest comb:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]538894[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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