Antique French Traveler's Clothes Brush Set with Bakelite Handles in Leather Case lint brushes This little cast-iron snail sculpture

This little cast-iron snail sculpture is a wonderful thing to hold in your hand: weighty and substantial

sugars or teas

nothing fancy about this one

it is composed of matchsticks: burned at their tips

such as the rims of pottery and porcelain

Antique French Traveler's Clothes Brush Set with Bakelite Handles in Leather Case lint brushes This little cast-iron snail sculptureHow nice to throw this lovely pair of antique French Travelers clothes brushes into one's suitcase atop a pile of carefully folded clothes when setting off on a long trip! And how much more civilized to use these to brush lint (and dog hair!) off those clothes than one of those cheap plastic rollers that invariably fall apart and always exasperate me! Dating from the 1910s and made of bakelite and natural bristles, they fit nicely into slots on either