Two hairbrushes on Mum's dresser - one with the brush side worn, and the other with the wooden business end buffed and worn!
When you have decided to use your taws to correct your teenage son/daughter, did you use it on the hand or bottom? Trousers up if used to spank the bottom? Widely used on the palm of a hands at school back in the day, I know.
I have seen the leather tawse in a school museum before now alongside a crook-handled cane. It was a two-tailed tawse, and really did look the business. My grandfather tanned my bottom a few times with a leather strap, so I do have some inkling how it must feel.