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

showing a duty of one shilling

but I thought they were worthy of rescuing from a pile at the flea market

" This became his philosophy when he turned to his youthful hobby of whittling upon his retirement in 1967 from the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad

decided to make his or her own version in wood

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