Beautifully Primitive, Carved Wood Wool Comb painted antique splint basket with crusty paint on some

with crusty paint on some of the letters as evident

with eye hooks for hanging

with the interior lid of the blocks' original cardboard box taped (with a variety of tapes

Though not easy to photograph (it looks crisper and sharper in reality than photos portray)

Beautifully Primitive, Carved Wood Wool Comb painted antique splint basket with crusty paint on someI've fallen in love with more than a few hetchels, used for combing flax, but to my eye none are as beautiful or sculpturally satisfying as this one, simply a long, hand hewn piece of wood with carved teeth at one end and definitely it was used as there is residue caught between the teeth. I found it in upstate New York, and though I remain terrible at wood identification it certainly appears to be some type of evergreen. It was cut somewhat