Beautifully Primitive, Carved Wood Wool Comb hand-painted Japanese wall pocket Victorian I believe

Victorian I believe

Made of pine I believe

I am listing additional examples from the same portfolio in a separate posting

so I can't say with 100% certainty--so I am pricing it in relation to its beauty and fineness rather than its pedigree

Beautifully Primitive, Carved Wood Wool Comb hand-painted Japanese wall pocket Victorian I believeI've fallen in love with more than a few hetchels, used for combing flax, but to my eye none are as beautiful or sculpturally satisfying as this one, simply a long, hand hewn piece of wood with carved teeth at one end and definitely it was used as there is residue caught between the teeth. I found it in upstate New York, and though I remain terrible at wood identification it certainly appears to be some type of evergreen. It was cut somewhat