Gorgeous Antique Flat Paintbrush with Long Horsehair Bristles crossed axes except "All Things Beautiful

except "All Things Beautiful

Certainly they bear a very strong resemblance to the animals of Swiss toy designer and maker Antonio Vitali (who also designed many toys produced by Creative Playthings)

The one with the unstained wood has a chip in the wood on one end of the stained side

This black and gold painted wooden Art Deco style lidded box

Gorgeous Antique Flat Paintbrush with Long Horsehair Bristles crossed axes except "All Things BeautifulI've had many a beautiful old brush in the shop, but this is the first flat paintbrush among them, and it is the most beautiful of it's ilk I've ever seen! With a great patina to the wood and metal wrap around ferrule, and the natural bristles (definitely animal hair, but I am not 100% if horsehair or other) darkening beautifully toward the ends, my inclination of course would be to immediately hang it on the wall as a perfect and unusual addition to