Mason Pearson Hairbrush

My mom has a Mason Pearson hairbrush that she got from her mother. The bristles are a mix of boar hair and nylon that feel completely different from the plastic brushes I grew up using because the boar bristles are soft enough to distribute oil from your scalp down to the ends without pulling or snagging. The brush handle is solid rubber over a pneumatic cushion. When you press the bristle pad it gives slightly and then bounces back, and that springiness means the brush follows the contour of your head rather than scraping across it. I like the weight of it, heavy enough that you don't have to press down, the brush does the work if you let gravity help. The dark red rubber has a smell that I associate with getting ready in the morning at my grandparents' house. The bristles clean easily if you run a comb through them once a week, and the brush has lasted 30 years so far without losing shape or shedding. At $200 it is absurd for a hairbrush, but the cost per year at this point is under $7. Every cheap brush I've bought for my own apartment has cracked or lost bristles within a year. Unchanged since the 1880s, the design has never needed revision.