Plastic Brush With Box From Maes Millinery Shop,

Plastic brush (a) with translucent orange plastic handle and white plastic teeth. The back of the brush is covered with gold metal with a decorative metal and rhinestone floral detail at the top and a mirror below it. Original paper packaging (b) is gold and black with black text on two long sides that reads 'A / Gold Tone / PRODUCT' and black text on the two short openings that reads 'BIJOU / COMB & BRUSH / 1922'. Mae Reeves (1912-2016) was a pioneering African-American milliner who was famous for her custom-made hats. Her business, Mae's Millinery Shop in downtown Philadelphia, was one of the first shops in the city to be owned by a woman of African American heritage. Artist Gold Tone. (Photo by Heritage Art/Heritage Images via Getty Images)