Beautiful Old Linen Covered Tamborine with Beveled Glass Mirror doll staircase and her sister are long

and her sister are long gone from this punch paper embroidery

The cloth repair on cover/binding has held and is holding the front cover to the spine fine

and a lot of fun

Quite a feat of labor and creativity--just look at that marvelous flag

Beautiful Old Linen Covered Tamborine with Beveled Glass Mirror doll staircase and her sister are longI'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