Beautifully Carved Antique Treen Tool with Hearts, Presumed Scandanavian Clothes Roller/Folder antique German pottery pitcher A beautiful old never used

A beautiful old never used horsehair brush with its original paper wrapper

which is at far right in the image of three sold together

sold to me by a former school teacher in Concord

I purchased it from a dealer in Spain

with an uneven left edge from being torn from a sketchbook

Beautifully Carved Antique Treen Tool with Hearts, Presumed Scandanavian Clothes Roller/Folder antique German pottery pitcher A beautiful old never usedI might have thought from the shape of this that it this was a knitting stick or sheath, used to support a needle during the process of knitting, but there is no hole in the end to receive the needle, so it's not that. Someone more knowledgable than I identifies it as 19th century Scandanavian, likely Norwegian, and a tool used for rolling or folding clothes. I just love it as an object, and i would imagine it was made by a young man as a gift for his