Lovely Antique Bone Handled Brush vintage handmade book with the posts perfect for

with the posts perfect for stacking rings and things

which I purchased from a member of the artist’s family—and which took about a month to make its way to me packed in nothing more than a simple unpadded envelope

with the Kansas City Star writing

like little tsunamis

Lovely Antique Bone Handled Brush vintage handmade book with the posts perfect forA little too large to be a toothbrush (!), I actually think this lovely bone brush might have been made more than a hundred years ago I believe for cleaning typewriters, as I found one, and only one, with the same form and black bristles marked as such on its handle. This one is marked "Extra Fine Pure Bristles Sterilized" but with nothing else, so I am not entirely sure, and it is also conceivable that it is a hat brush, made for brushing the rim of