Mid 19th C. Henry Taylor (England) Grain Painting Combs Set in Original Box handpainted box and the faces and hair

and the faces and hair and hats

graphite on board

I do not know the origins of this welded iron/steel sculpture of a a man running in space

This and one other are a combination of black and cream

Mid 19th C. Henry Taylor (England) Grain Painting Combs Set in Original Box handpainted box and the faces and hairA remnant from the era when people grain painted boxes and furniture, originally in order to emulate the appearance of more expensive woods, this is a set of eight pre Civil War wood graining hand combs made by Henry Taylor Co., Sheffield, England. As found, in their original case with partial paper label remaining, and with eight of what I believe was an original set of 12 combs is present, representing three different sizes with various degrees of