Hand-carved Wooden Magnifying Glass boy in blue shirt framed in a gold painted

framed in a gold painted frame wired on the back for hanging

Some marks are incised on the bottom

while the bottom half features a much wider band of birch bark

missing pages 304-305

and not a bad rhymer

Hand-carved Wooden Magnifying Glass boy in blue shirt framed in a gold paintedThis is not an antique, but it certainly has some age to it, and I really like the fairly rustic approach to what I typically think of as a pretty refined object. Plus the perfectly round raised ring around the glass and perfectly flat handle, which makes me think a bit of a popsicle or lollipop on a stick, and also of shaker bevelled glass hand mirrors. A fun object, great for all sorts of displays and who can ever have too many magnifiers laying