SOLD Unusual Old Carved Comb with Booted Leg Shaped Handle Japanese modern feels positively semiotic

feels positively semiotic

1900-1920s I believe

opens easily and sits flush

I like it as a gesture of a raised hand

Rocker: 3 9/16" t x 3 1/4" w x 4" d

SOLD Unusual Old Carved Comb with Booted Leg Shaped Handle Japanese modern feels positively semioticCertainly this is an old, hand carved brush comb, with its paddle bearing a field of thin metal spikes set into the wood, but I am not completely sure its origins it has an American folk art feel to it, with what looks like a carved boot at the end of the handle, cross hatch pattern carved into the reverse side of the paddle, and old white paint over that and I would think used as a sort of carding comb, for wool. But in the Africa Museum in Brussels,