Charming Small Early Mirror in Hand-carved Frame with Homespun Fabric Backing 18th century These hand-carved wooden ducks

These hand-carved wooden ducks

who expose themselves when their bodies are lifted

I dug this drawing out from near the bottom of an overstuffed box filled with old magazines and a few other drawings by young Richard Page Thurton

I believe these would be called “Double Happiness” domino cards

Charming Small Early Mirror in Hand-carved Frame with Homespun Fabric Backing 18th century These hand-carved wooden ducksI fell in love with this little mirror the moment I spotted it, sold to me a dealer from my neck of the woods who always has great things and I love the back, with neatly trimmed piece of homespun linen backing the mirror, almost as much as the front. It looks to me that perhaps the mirror was once framed on the backside as there are four small iron nails visible, but perhaps they were not very effective in holding it, and the fabric was added to