Herkules Style Looped Wire Rug Beater with Wooden Handle Penland with light wear and aging

with light wear and aging to the metal

I really love them just as drawings and would be inclined to mount and frame them in small groupings--but if viewed through an old stereograph one could experience the 3-dimensional effect of the merger of each pair of images

and seeming as if about to take a bite out of the sun

Oklahoma City and the Kansas City area

and just a bit of wear to the corners generally

Herkules Style Looped Wire Rug Beater with Wooden Handle Penland with light wear and agingI'd never seen a rug beater like this before when I found it, and just fell in love with the look of it, with its elegant form and especially that beautiful tightly looping wire, which casts a pretty wonderful shadow. I've since learned this is called a Herkules rug beater, and that these are made, usually in German, for pretty heavy duty rug beating! The shape of this one is the loveliest I've seen, with an especially long wire neck giving it lots of