Beautifully Primitive, Carved Wood Wool Comb painted antique splint basket It does look like there

It does look like there may be a syllabic signature on the underside but hard to tell

structurally super sound

with crusty paint on some of the letters as evident

Sight: 7 1/2" x 8 1/8"

a solid black shadow version of itself

Beautifully Primitive, Carved Wood Wool Comb painted antique splint basket It does look like thereI'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