Charming Old Homemade Wooden Kaleidoscope folk art boy the message to his dear

the message to his dear uncle in Grenoble: better late than never ("mieux vaut hard que jamais

I believe this was likely meant to represent a train station

This hand-thown vessel is stamped on bottom and measures 5

were lost at sea

Old Maid in its current incarnation dates to the early 1880s

Charming Old Homemade Wooden Kaleidoscope folk art boy the message to his dearSince finding a sweet old homemade kaleidoscope this summer, I've kept a keen eye out I find kaleidoscopes magical things, and there is something especially special, and very tender too, about someone having created that magic for themselves! Homemade ones like this have no turning parts; you just turn the whole thing to move the little bits of colored glass around inside, landing in different patterns. Not the most spectacular kaleidoscopic effects