Sweet, Much Loved Victorian Child's Bell Rattle with Turned Wooden Handle hand-written text done on heavyweight sketchbook paper

done on heavyweight sketchbook paper

I love the ambiguity of this image

8 1/8" x 6 1/8 x 1/2" and in very good condition

I think in a good way

with patches of true darning all over

Sweet, Much Loved Victorian Child's Bell Rattle with Turned Wooden Handle hand-written text done on heavyweight sketchbook paperI have a weakness for antique rattles, and bells of all sorts too, and certainly believe an antique child's rattle with lovely turned wooden handle is superior to a new plastic one! And just a festive feeling thing to wave around including for summoning people to the dinner table. Sweet. 5 3 4" long and producing a cheery jingle jangle, like sleighbells. Wear to the striped, sewn strips of heavy duty oil cloth to which the bells are sewn, and some