Beautifully Carved Antique Treen Tool with Hearts, Presumed Scandanavian Clothes Roller/Folder antique German pottery pitcher I purchased it from a

I purchased it from a dealer in Spain

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

and blocks are in very good condition

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

To my eye quite a beautiful thing--a sculpture on its own

Beautifully Carved Antique Treen Tool with Hearts, Presumed Scandanavian Clothes Roller/Folder antique German pottery pitcher I purchased it from aI 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