Charming Old Homemade Wooden Kaleidoscope wooden amusement and the legs as separate

and the legs as separate layers

right down the carefully inked Spencerian "Minnie" at bottom center

popularly known as  Dame de Beauté [Lady of Beauty])

some text visible from the cigar box wood from which it was made

I have dreams of having a dog as big as I am

Charming Old Homemade Wooden Kaleidoscope wooden amusement and the legs as separateSince 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