Pyrograph Sign, "May All Your Troubles End in Smoke" with Match Striker Oskar Hansen A beautiful old never used

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

This is a fantastical landscape that one can get lost in

and were traditionally made with dyes derived from crushed fruits and insects

thin leather case

The wonderfully gestural surface decoration evinces a vertical sequence of blooms

Pyrograph Sign, "May All Your Troubles End in Smoke" with Match Striker Oskar Hansen A beautiful old never usedI'm pretty taken with this antique wooden sign decorated with pyrography, signed (burned) on the back with the initials of its maker (W. F. G) and the year 1906. It not only features a great rendering of a burning pipe and the text, May all your troubles end in smoke, but also a square of sandpaper adhered to the bottom left corner for striking matches, which is still rough and ready to do the job. I especially love the os inside of os, like smoke