Mid 19th C. British Grain Painting Combs, Complete Set in Original Box boules ball Lots better in person

Lots better in person

I love an old painted folk art relief carving

which one imagines was used to hide things secret or precious

whose estate (including huge

and super sturdy now

Mid 19th C. British Grain Painting Combs, Complete Set in Original Box boules ball Lots better in personA remnant from the era when people grain painted boxes and furniture, originally in order to emulate the appearance of more expensive woods, this is a set of pre Civil War wood graining hand combs made by Henry Taylor Co., Sheffield, England. As found, in their original case with paper label remaining, and with 10 of what I believe was an original set of 12 combs present, representing four different sizes with various degrees of fineness. I love these