Very Primitive Antique Flax Hetchel Berber 5 1/4" long x 1

5 1/4" long x 1 3/8" wide x 2 3/8" tall and in great condition

though I am not entirely certain of its age

making it a really great one to hang on the wall or even from the ceiling

water stain to part of the back cover and a few inside pages

Very Primitive Antique Flax Hetchel Berber 5 1/4" long x 1I'm always admiring old hetchel, which were used to comb flax in preparation of spinning it into thread, but this small scale one is the first I've really felt compelled to purchase, as it seems to me just about the most primitive, distilled iteration of the tool I've seen, and pure sculpture at the same time. Just two rows of old iron teeth here, beautifully rusted and bent here and there, a handful of them a little loose, such that they can be