Shoe brush owned by Cab Calloway

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This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.

A shoe brush owned by Cab Calloway. The shoe brush is primarily constructed from black plastic. It has an elongated handle that terminates in a thin brush with a rounded head and black bristles. There is a wide, gold tone, metal band connecting the brush to the handle. The handle is roughly J-shaped with the top molded into the shape of a bridled horsehead and neck. There is a gold tone jump ring threaded through the nostrils of the horsehead. Below the horse’s neck are two molded, three-dimensional diamond shapes that terminates just above the gold band.

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