Set of Three Old Brushes vintage earrings high-gloss Japanese Natsume--or tea caddy--is

high-gloss Japanese Natsume--or tea caddy--is not an antique

So I was delighted to find this striking piece at an antique shop in Maine: a wooden tray with face constructed of matchsticks and inlaid wood

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

a teacher and a student

James Story

Set of Three Old Brushes vintage earrings high-gloss Japanese Natsume--or tea caddy--isA 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