Excellent Old Bell System Telephone Lineman's Brass Pocket Mirror (for Splicing and Inspecting Wire) toy bear expecting its concealed price tag

expecting its concealed price tag to proclaim its unattainability

Both on their knees feeling like pure incarnations of earnest devotion and gratitude as they making their offerings of that to a very marvelous Virgin of San Juan de Los Lagos

giving a terrific softness to the blue

and I believe it is quite old

) but this gang of shoemakers went full out to showcase their labors for this photograph

Excellent Old Bell System Telephone Lineman's Brass Pocket Mirror (for Splicing and Inspecting Wire) toy bear expecting its concealed price tagI found another of these mirrors years ago, which is what made me know to flip it over, see the Bell System type on the back, and grab it. These mirrors were issued to linemen who worked for Bell Telephone, to use inspecting the hidden undersides of telephone cable splices. I love picturing that, and also love the object hood of the mirror itself: heavy and substantial, not an easy one to loose track of, soldered at the corners and with a great