Gorgeous Antique Flat Paintbrush with Long Horsehair Bristles crossed axes Certainly they bear a very

Certainly they bear a very strong resemblance to the animals of Swiss toy designer and maker Antonio Vitali (who also designed many toys produced by Creative Playthings)

how I love this drawing

All that said

The one with the unstained wood has a chip in the wood on one end of the stained side

A sweet little thing for the desk or shelf

Gorgeous Antique Flat Paintbrush with Long Horsehair Bristles crossed axes Certainly they bear a veryI've had many a beautiful old brush in the shop, but this is the first flat paintbrush among them, and it is the most beautiful of it's ilk I've ever seen! With a great patina to the wood and metal wrap around ferrule, and the natural bristles (definitely animal hair, but I am not 100% if horsehair or other) darkening beautifully toward the ends, my inclination of course would be to immediately hang it on the wall as a perfect and unusual addition to