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Elegant ornamental hair combs are highly regarded among collectors as vintage fashion accessories of great beauty and value. Fancy hand carved examples in expensive luxury materials can run the collector into the hundreds of dollars, while simple, unadorned horn or tortoise combs generally fetch prices in the $18 to $45 range. Fancy celluloid examples studded with rhinestones were the last hurrah of the comb industry in Leominster, Mass., during the mid 1920s. Expect to pay $35 to $75 for fine examples in multiple colors.