Amazing Antique Carved Miniature Comb with Tiny Shape Wooden Teeth cigar ribbon quilt and certainly admire the resourcefulness

and certainly admire the resourcefulness and creativity of its maker in piecing these bits together in such a smart and striking way

feeling almost like wood

I especially love the plaid pants of the one with red shirt

Image size is 4 1/2" x 6 1/2"

This is one of a pair of paintings I found together yesterday in Maine

Amazing Antique Carved Miniature Comb with Tiny Shape Wooden Teeth cigar ribbon quilt and certainly admire the resourcefulnessI found this primitive miniature brush comb in an antiques shop near Brimfield, and have no real idea what it would have been used for but I think it is completely extraordinary! All of the tiny "teeth" appear to have been individually carved of wood, each with quite a sharp point, then the straight ends were inserted one by one into the face of the "brush." Perhaps it was used for combing small bits of fleece very very very finely? I cant imagine