Antique c. 1940's Tort And Apple Juice Bakelite? Japanese Hair Ornaments Paintings for it's unique figural design

for it's unique figural design of the crab that adorns the hinged lid of the inkwell

Every summer

The tapered post rails end in lovely teardrop finials

and sold pottery

from age-related wear to one of the landscape pastel surfaces

Antique c. 1940's Tort And Apple Juice Bakelite? Japanese Hair Ornaments Paintings for it's unique figural designWe are offering A set of 20th c Japanese Hair Ornaments, Bakelite & wooden sticks. Two traditional hair sticks and one double ended adjustable hair stick. In the 20th century, Japanese women's use of hair ornaments reflected a dynamic interplay between tradition and modernization. Traditional Use: These traditional Japanese hairpins, known as kanzashi, have been used since the Jmon period, initially believed to ward off evil spirits : With the