Very Primitive Antique Flax Hetchel tree of life showing a duty of one

showing a duty of one shilling

(Featuring 52 cards in 4 suits

at least most of the time

it measures 6 1/4" tall x 4 1/4" across at widest

Very Primitive Antique Flax Hetchel tree of life showing a duty of oneI'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