Set of Three Old Brushes vintage earrings James Story

James Story

I think it would be especially stunning filled with a narcissus or lily

The piece as a whole feels a bit Viennese Secession era a la Egon Schiele

The deep brown glaze that covers the surface of the bull's body is predominately smooth

Set of Three Old Brushes vintage earrings James StoryA set of three wonderful old brushes! The long, snake like one is a very old drafting brush, used for sweeping eraser crumbs off of blueprints; it and the rectangular one (a shoeshine brush, I believe) I would guess were made in the late 19th early 20th c, with natural bristles attached via fine hand stitched wire (I think horse hair on the drafting brush, perhaps boars hair on the other.) The third, also horsehair I think and probably 1940s or so, is