Wonderful Small 19th Century Treen Cased Mirror, Presumed Sailor Made pine needle basket I'll never resist a nice

I'll never resist a nice folk art house if I can help it

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but at the end of the alphabet are also listed what I guess are the initials of several other members of her family: KG

Oh goodness

featuring 91 line drawn caricature portraits of types from "the Tool" to "the Investor" to the "Merry Widow"

Wonderful Small 19th Century Treen Cased Mirror, Presumed Sailor Made pine needle basket I'll never resist a niceThe PA dealer I purchased this hand held mirror from described it as sailor made; I would trust that, and learned from the shop keeper that the dealer spent a lot of time in Maine and the construction of this feels akin to that of an antique cased compass. I just fell in love with it as a special feeling and aura full object, heavy in the hand and with a sense of magic to the mirror itself, held inside the case with some distance between it and a