SOLD Unusual Old Carved Comb with Booted Leg Shaped Handle Japanese modern tightly stuffed

tightly stuffed

I'd probably hang just as in this from pins in the corners

opens easily and sits flush

complete with paper lanterns hanging from the awnings-- and it looks like the couple here are quite enjoying themselves

Rocker: 3 9/16" t x 3 1/4" w x 4" d

SOLD Unusual Old Carved Comb with Booted Leg Shaped Handle Japanese modern tightly stuffedCertainly 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,