Beautifully Carved Antique Treen Tool with Hearts, Presumed Scandanavian Clothes Roller/Folder antique German pottery pitcher who made similarly unflinching paintings

who made similarly unflinching paintings and prints of boxers in the ring

8" long x 4 13/16" t x 5/8" d

and blocks are in very good condition

A beautiful old never used horsehair brush with its original paper wrapper

with an uneven left edge from being torn from a sketchbook

Beautifully Carved Antique Treen Tool with Hearts, Presumed Scandanavian Clothes Roller/Folder antique German pottery pitcher who made similarly unflinching paintingsI might have thought from the shape of this that it this was a knitting stick or sheath, used to support a needle during the process of knitting, but there is no hole in the end to receive the needle, so it's not that. Someone more knowledgable than I identifies it as 19th century Scandanavian, likely Norwegian, and a tool used for rolling or folding clothes. I just love it as an object, and i would imagine it was made by a young man as a gift for his