Black-Painted Turned Handle Antique Whisk Brush 1980s necklace beautiful patina

beautiful patina

including some terrific Ecuadorian textiles and ceramics

with some smudges and minor bends but no tears in the yellow paper of the cover

and then through her fantastic illustrations for the book of Inuit folk tales

This beautiful piece

Black-Painted Turned Handle Antique Whisk Brush 1980s necklace beautiful patinaI'm always on the hunt for beautiful brushes, but this is the first quite like this I've come across, late 19th century I believe, with beautifully shaped turned and black painted wood handle and natural bristles at the end. Useful for brushing crumbs or whatever off the table, but lovely enough just to hang from a ribbon on the wall. The bristles are in perfect condition; some wear and aging to the handle including a few dings to the wood here and