Untouched Very Early 20th C. Log of Steel Wool tripod candleholders I'm pretty sure I remember

I'm pretty sure I remember this Edward Koren drawing from when it appeared as a  New Yorker cartoon some years ago

Feeling iconic

this one the hardest to part with

and more so an old handmade one

the brands are Milton Bradley

Untouched Very Early 20th C. Log of Steel Wool tripod candleholders I'm pretty sure I rememberLike a large untouched roll of a British butcher's butcher paper I recently found and sold, this one feels like it found me, to my eye a perfect readymade which I had no choice but to take home whether it appeals to anyone else or not. I've since learned that the American Steel Wool Manufacturing Company that produced it founded in 1896 by David Wolf in Greenwich, New York seems in fact to to have been the first company to bring steel wool to market