Charming Old Homemade Wooden Kaleidoscope folk art boy Old Maid in its current

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

and feels to me as if it ought to inspire a novel or a play or at least a poem about childhood and fantasy and confronting the existential void

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

with no major dings and the plug in the bottom fitting tight but easily removed

Charming Old Homemade Wooden Kaleidoscope folk art boy Old Maid in its currentSince 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