#4 Loew-Cornell 257-4-2 Double Tip Artist’s Paintbrush Multi-Round Red Acrylic
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This is an exceptionally rare Loew-Cornell 257-4-2 Double-Tip Multi-Round artist’s brush, featuring the striking clear red acrylic handle from Loew-Cornell’s most collectible specialty era. The handle is marked:
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#4 – LOEW-CORNELL® – 257-4-2 – MULTI-ROUND – China
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Handle: transparent red acrylic
Style: double-tip multi-round
Use: designed for specialty multi-stroke work, double outlines, shadowed borders, round dual lines, and precision decorative painting.
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⭐ About the Multi-Round Specialty Series
Loew-Cornell’s 257 Multi-Round brushes belong to one of the most innovative specialty lines created during the golden years of decorative painting (1980s–2000s). These brushes were engineered to give artists two perfectly spaced rounded strokes in one pass — ideal for borders, double outlines, flowers, scrolls, accents, and tole-painting details.
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The Multi-Round series was favored by folk artists, faux-finish painters, and instructors because it saved time while producing clean, consistent results that are difficult to replicate with standard brushes.
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The clear red acrylic handle identifies this as part of Loew-Cornell’s late specialty-tool era — a line produced in lower quantities than the green and blue series, making the red-handled models significantly harder to find.
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⭐ Why this brush is highly collectible
Loew-Cornell discontinued all brush manufacturing several years ago, and the entire 257 Multi-Round line is now permanently out of production.
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The double-tip models, like the 257-4-2, were made in much smaller numbers than the standard single-liner specialty brushes. As a result, surviving examples are rare and extremely desirable among collectors and decorative painters who depended on these tools.
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Artists who used the Multi-Rounds consider them irreplaceable, and collectors value the red-acrylic series as one of Loew-Cornell’s most attractive and scarce production runs.
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This brush is considered top-tier collectible and is absolutely justified at a premium price due to its rarity, condition, and discontinued status.
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✔ Ideal for collectors, instructors, decorative painters, faux-finish artists, and anyone completing a rare Loew-Cornell specialty set.
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Collect all 8 of these gorgeous brushes… together they are art all on their own, sitting in a clear vase on a sunny window sill…. See the pictures of all the ones I have. They make really unique sun catchers.
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