Cool and Scarce Antique Grain Painting Brush (#3) pottery cooking pot (a lesson in gray scale

(a lesson in gray scale I might guess

with some use to the watercolor blocks as pictured

slide lid box here reads Goodyear Rapid Needles

with tilted cross atop this lookout platform seeming to me either to forbode a coming disaster or to mourn one having recently occurred

which I personally love

Cool and Scarce Antique Grain Painting Brush (#3) pottery cooking pot (a lesson in gray scaleI'd never seen one of these before but do always have an eye out for a beautiful and unusual brush and what a great looking thing this one. It is a grain painting brush, also called a "pencil overgrainer" as one might imagine, this would allow the furniture painter to create five parallel lines in a single stroke, simulating the look of wood grain lines. And a little research shows that these were made in different sizes this one marked 3. Wood