Beautiful Old Linen Covered Tamborine with Beveled Glass Mirror mantra perhaps for a very musical

perhaps for a very musical sweetheart--and it would make a very sweet token of love now to the same

with some small tears to the prints with original mark drawings here and there

The doll comes out from the dress

75" diameter at base

And this lovely antique lignum vitae ink bottle only strengthens the case

Beautiful Old Linen Covered Tamborine with Beveled Glass Mirror mantra perhaps for a very musicalI've got a special weakness for old tambourines, finding them quite beautiful objects formally, and also for knowing they've lived long lives of being held and shaken really among the most immediate of instruments. I would guess this beautiful linen covered one lived a good life before becoming the frame for a bevelled mirror but the mirror itself has clearly been there for a good long time, too. I imagine the transformation occurred after the drum