Very Primitive Antique Flax Hetchel tree of life but I thought they were

but I thought they were worthy of rescuing from a pile at the flea market

Box measures 6 1/2" long x 2 1/4 wide and deep

Taking their name from the town of Saltillo

(Featuring 52 cards in 4 suits

and exactly the sort of thing I am forever searching for

Very Primitive Antique Flax Hetchel tree of life but I thought they wereI'm always admiring old hetchel, which were used to comb flax in preparation of spinning it into thread, but this small scale one is the first I've really felt compelled to purchase, as it seems to me just about the most primitive, distilled iteration of the tool I've seen, and pure sculpture at the same time. Just two rows of old iron teeth here, beautifully rusted and bent here and there, a handful of them a little loose, such that they can be