Stunning and Extremely Sculptural Set of Antique Sculpting Tools barrel shaped box just general wear and age

just general wear and age

ready to blow

2 medium soft pencils

Quite a formation

8 1/4” tall standing

Stunning and Extremely Sculptural Set of Antique Sculpting Tools barrel shaped box just general wear and ageOne might think tools like these inspired many a modernist sculptor sculpture hard not to see the work of Brancusi and Arp and many others (Aubock, too) in the tools themselves, and I must say that just laying them out and arranging them together delivers huge aesthetic pleasure. Most of these are brass, a couple iron, all high quality and I believe antique. Used I would guess for working with plaster, with scoops or blades flat edges at the ends of