Set of Three Old Brushes vintage earrings embodying painstaking labor

embodying painstaking labor

The piece as a whole feels a bit Viennese Secession era a la Egon Schiele

James Story

a teacher and a student

Set of Three Old Brushes vintage earrings embodying painstaking laborA 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