Beautiful (and Indestructible) Antique Handheld Brass Mirror, Chas Harrison, NY antique carved stone book making it useful atop a

making it useful atop a stack of papers

I especially like the awkward cropping

7 1/16" across at handle

I'd call it brutalist

1830s Staffordshire child's mugs and the like I typically find by a couple of decades I believe

Beautiful (and Indestructible) Antique Handheld Brass Mirror, Chas Harrison, NY antique carved stone book making it useful atop aI found this one at Brimfield, and spent quite a while talking with the dealer I purchased it from about it, whose eye, and sensibilities, I really like. He thought it likely a mirror carried by someone in the military small, solid, and seeming pretty much indestructible, it seems very much suited for life in the trenches. I love the way it feels to hold heavy and thick and very sturdy, and a bit like a fragment mirror in terms of its scale and also