1929 50th Birthday Love Token Mirror with Feet and Handwritten Message on the Underside Japanese hand puppet The opening measures 3/4 inches

The opening measures 3/4 inches across

and playing around with blocks sets like this brings me at least a lot of pleasure and satisfaction

with a little paint loss and some surface cracking to the wood

as is the wear to it

with the dentine visible in a few places

1929 50th Birthday Love Token Mirror with Feet and Handwritten Message on the Underside Japanese hand puppet The opening measures 3/4 inchesI'll never walk away from a very specific homemade token of love if I can help it, and there is so much I love rolled up into this one, including just a small fragment of a mirror, which is of little practical use but gives the whole charming creation at least some presumption of function while also making it feel very precious, as (earlier than this one) fragment mirrors certainly were. And clearly the Uncle William who made this had grand