Beautiful Antique Tin Sleeve with Ultra Painterly Patina, Filled with Brushes as Found heavy padlock ) Played like pick up

) Played like pick up sticks

and better still one of them which is really quite ingenious in its construction and the manual dexterity challenges it presents (as well as the creative possibilities for configuration it allows)

I especially love that there is a preserved finger print between the 1 and 2 inch mark

It measures 16"x20" and definitely has some age to it

but will balance if leaned

Beautiful Antique Tin Sleeve with Ultra Painterly Patina, Filled with Brushes as Found heavy padlock ) Played like pick upPhotos do no real justice to the surface on this antique soldered tin brush holder every bit as satisfying to my eye as a really beautiful old painter's palette, and only after falling in love with it did I realize there were a bunch of nice paint brushes inside. Really a beautiful thing, which conjures romantic notions of plein air painting somewhere beautiful. 10 3 8" l x 2 3 8" x 1" Gorgeous painterly patina, lid fits and holds tightly, brushes in