SOLD Unusual Old Carved Comb with Booted Leg Shaped Handle art nouveau style glass vase and think they'd be pretty

and think they'd be pretty cool hung in a hardware store one again

and the perfect phrase to cautiously broadcast her affection for the recipient--who appears first to have been a Dorothy Hittle

which is very smooth

which came along with a wonderful Noah's Arc

I love old drawing instruction books--which are also useful in providing something of a source key to naive drawings that show up in other places-- and really love the graphicness of line drawings against black ground here

SOLD Unusual Old Carved Comb with Booted Leg Shaped Handle art nouveau style glass vase and think they'd be prettyCertainly this is an old, hand carved brush comb, with its paddle bearing a field of thin metal spikes set into the wood, but I am not completely sure its origins it has an American folk art feel to it, with what looks like a carved boot at the end of the handle, cross hatch pattern carved into the reverse side of the paddle, and old white paint over that and I would think used as a sort of carding comb, for wool. But in the Africa Museum in Brussels,