Herkules Style Looped Wire Rug Beater with Wooden Handle Penland ) Each figure measures 4

) Each figure measures 4 3/8" tall

Oklahoma City and the Kansas City area

and seeming as if about to take a bite out of the sun

and very sweet

I really love them just as drawings and would be inclined to mount and frame them in small groupings--but if viewed through an old stereograph one could experience the 3-dimensional effect of the merger of each pair of images

Herkules Style Looped Wire Rug Beater with Wooden Handle Penland ) Each figure measures 4I'd never seen a rug beater like this before when I found it, and just fell in love with the look of it, with its elegant form and especially that beautiful tightly looping wire, which casts a pretty wonderful shadow. I've since learned this is called a Herkules rug beater, and that these are made, usually in German, for pretty heavy duty rug beating! The shape of this one is the loveliest I've seen, with an especially long wire neck giving it lots of