Stunning and Extremely Sculptural Set of Antique Sculpting Tools barrel shaped box 1" across at opening

1" across at opening

Quite a formation

2 medium soft pencils

but are very readable

likely first half of the 20th century

Stunning and Extremely Sculptural Set of Antique Sculpting Tools barrel shaped box 1" across at openingOne 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