Australian Aboriginal Wooden Clapsticks with Pyrographed Decoration - A Pair vintage painting stacked with cookbooks and perhaps

stacked with cookbooks  and perhaps with favorite recipes stuffed inside the drawer

These well-worn wooden toy bowling pins--one of two sets I found at a recent estate sale--are just wonderful objects to have around

This beautiful vintage Japanese lacquer box

looking fabulous holding down a pile of papers while just waiting to be picked up and held in your hand

Australian Aboriginal Wooden Clapsticks with Pyrographed Decoration - A Pair vintage painting stacked with cookbooks and perhapsThese wooden clapsticks, or clappers, or singing sticks, make a terrifically satisfying clap when struck in addition to being wonderful objects that feel great in the hand. There is a fantastic variety of Australian Aboriginal clapsticks out there many decorated with burned designs like these, others painted and or carved. They have been used as percussive instruments for thousands of years, often in concert with the didgeridoo, a wind instrument of