1807 Copper Engraving Flax Brake Heckle Scutcher Farm Machinery Agriculture TCF1 CARS7 Photograph by Herwig

Photograph by Herwig

Rousseau claimed to be self taught

This 116+ year old Item is rated Very Fine / Fine+

This is an original 1958 black and white rotogravure of Henri Matisse painting a portrait

in White Plains

1807 Copper Engraving Flax Brake Heckle Scutcher Farm Machinery Agriculture TCF1 CARS7 Photograph by Herwig"Apparatus for Dressing Flax" This is an original 1807 black and white copper engraving of a flax hand brake that is used to break and separate the boon or core from the flax (figs. 1 and 2), a flax foot brake (fig. 3), a beating or scrutching machine (fig. 4), a flax heckle used to straighten the fibers of flax (fig. 5), a flax rippling comb used to separate the bolls from the flax seed (fig. 6), a flax stock and scutcher (fig. 9), and other farm