I've had an interesting experience recently. Decades ago my father gave me a Geo. F. Trumper Pure Badger brush. I think it was made by Simpson. It was my "daily driver" for years. Somewhere along the line a couple of the letters in the printing on it were partially rubbed off and that made it a bit distinctive - to me anyhow. About 20 years ago I had my bag with this brush in it stolen while on a business trip to San Francisco.
Well, a couple of weeks ago I was poking around ebay and stumbled on a brush matching this description precisely. "No way - it can't be" I thought to myself but I had to buy it obviously. When I unpacked it I had an immediate jolt of recognition: "hey, it's my long-lost brush!" Now, I do get that it could be just from the same batch and the batch had a defect where parts of the r and z in "Curzon" didn't adhere properly or something like that.....maybe that's more likely in fact? I don't know - it sure seems like my brush. The handle is right, the knot is right. As wildly unlikely as it seems, I think this is my old brush magically returned to me from the ether.....
Well, a couple of weeks ago I was poking around ebay and stumbled on a brush matching this description precisely. "No way - it can't be" I thought to myself but I had to buy it obviously. When I unpacked it I had an immediate jolt of recognition: "hey, it's my long-lost brush!" Now, I do get that it could be just from the same batch and the batch had a defect where parts of the r and z in "Curzon" didn't adhere properly or something like that.....maybe that's more likely in fact? I don't know - it sure seems like my brush. The handle is right, the knot is right. As wildly unlikely as it seems, I think this is my old brush magically returned to me from the ether.....
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