Gorgeous Primitive Hand-carved Carding or Flax Comb celluloid dice features a young woman with

features a young woman with quite a sculptural head of hair (

but clearly it did the job of a stool for many many years

with a one small stain in the upper right area

It is in excellent condition and signed on the bottom

Gorgeous Primitive Hand-carved Carding or Flax Comb celluloid dice features a young woman withIt's the completely irregularly shaped heads of the hand forged nail teeth on this old comb that really get me, lined up in a wonderfully gnarly row and giving it some real bite. And held in those teeth on the other side is what I'd have to guess is hardened fat from combing flax or hemp or wool? I know there are plenty of combs and hetchels etc out there, but to my eye the super primitiveness of this particular tool makes it a very singular and quite