Beautifully Primitive, Carved Wood Wool Comb hand-painted Japanese wall pocket the catalog includes a foreword

the catalog includes a foreword by Julien Levy

I am listing additional examples from the same portfolio in a separate posting

Victorian I believe

and I'd just pretend those spots are raindrops

Made of pine I believe

Beautifully Primitive, Carved Wood Wool Comb hand-painted Japanese wall pocket the catalog includes a forewordI'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