Charming Old Homemade Wooden Kaleidoscope weathered paint 2" x 1 3/4" and

2" x 1 3/4" and in good shape

)  As a genre

made even better by the free-hand painting of his eyes and paws

with its terrific orange and dark blue banded Art Deco style decoration against green body

I can't resist a forget-me-not that's endured some 150 years

Charming Old Homemade Wooden Kaleidoscope weathered paint 2" x 1 3/4" andSince finding a sweet old homemade kaleidoscope this summer, I've kept a keen eye out I find kaleidoscopes magical things, and there is something especially special, and very tender too, about someone having created that magic for themselves! Homemade ones like this have no turning parts; you just turn the whole thing to move the little bits of colored glass around inside, landing in different patterns. Not the most spectacular kaleidoscopic effects