Very Primitive Antique Flax Hetchel Berber while the box shows some

while the box shows some wear around the edges and two thin surface cuts on the top of the box

water stain to part of the back cover and a few inside pages

Such a charming little carved wooden shoe

could easily be added

The layers of pink and cream cut paper under the glass lid remind me of antique school girl valentines and paper dolls and woven hearts

Very Primitive Antique Flax Hetchel Berber while the box shows someI'm always admiring old hetchel, which were used to comb flax in preparation of spinning it into thread, but this small scale one is the first I've really felt compelled to purchase, as it seems to me just about the most primitive, distilled iteration of the tool I've seen, and pure sculpture at the same time. Just two rows of old iron teeth here, beautifully rusted and bent here and there, a handful of them a little loose, such that they can be