Australian Aboriginal Wooden Clapsticks with Pyrographed Decoration - A Pair vintage painting This Sapolin Gold Leaf Kit

This Sapolin Gold Leaf Kit in its original wonderful turned wooden canister with dome lid

The lid features a very dark stain with a nice border detail

which produced a number of other volumes of popular poetry (Kipling

These well-worn wooden toy bowling pins--one of two sets I found at a recent estate sale--are just wonderful objects to have around

Australian Aboriginal Wooden Clapsticks with Pyrographed Decoration - A Pair vintage painting This Sapolin Gold Leaf KitThese wooden clapsticks, or clappers, or singing sticks, make a terrifically satisfying clap when struck in addition to being wonderful objects that feel great in the hand. There is a fantastic variety of Australian Aboriginal clapsticks out there many decorated with burned designs like these, others painted and or carved. They have been used as percussive instruments for thousands of years, often in concert with the didgeridoo, a wind instrument of