which will show the shapes. As, however, all or most of them are made in several qualities and sizes, it will be impossible to give all these in "illustrations." In the description the various sizes that each is made up in will be given.

a. The calcimine brush is probably the largest and most expensive brush made for the paint trade. The best are made from long springy Russian stock and on downward to clear Tampico. They are made on a flat wooden head with a wooden handle and are bound in metal nailed on to the head, usually galvanized iron is used for the purpose. They are made in three sizes: 6, 7 and 8 inches wide. See Fig. 1.

b. Wall stipplers are long bristle brushes made upon an oblong square head usually in two sizes, 32x 8 and 32x9 inches. These brushes are used only in following up wall painting to obliterate brush marks and producing a uniform grained finish to the work, by beating the painting evenly all over. The head is a wooden one and the finished tool looks like a mammoth cloth brush. See Fig. 2.

C. Flat wall brushes are made up in all qualities

and widths of head from 3 to 5 inches wide, and are bound to a wooden head and handle by a metallic band or by a leather binding when they are then known being set in a rubber head and vulcanized. This pre

vents the losing of hair. See Fig. 3 for the shape of as "stucco wall" brushes.

Some are also made by

metal bound wall, and Fig. 4 for the "stucco or leather bound."

d. Round bristle paint brushes are made in many qualities, weights and lengths of bristles; in open centers, semi-open centers or full stock, besides a number of patented arrangements each claiming to be "it." The binding is usually wire or cording or set in a solid

rubber head. The sizes run by o from 1.0 the smallest to 8.0 the largest. See Fig. 5.

e. Oval bristle paint brushes only differ from the above by the shape of the make up which as the name indicates is oval instead of round. In qualities and sizes they are similar to the round brush described in the preceding sub-section. See Fig. 5, which also represents it fairly well only that the handle is flatter than in the round brush.

f. Painters' dusters, either round or flat, and in many qualities of white or black bristles. The best quality is that known as the coach painter's duster and are made in white bristles only. The length and thickness of hair make the selling price higher and lower running from 32 to 5 inches long. See Fig. 6 for the round. The flat is shaped like Fig. 3 only more loosely put together.

g. Before closing up on the large bristle brushes it will be well to note "the whitewash heads" as sometimes the painter is called upon to do that kind of work; besides being an excellent tool to do calcimining with