Hand-carved Wooden Magnifying Glass boy in blue shirt while the bottom half features

while the bottom half features a much wider band of birch bark

or paint a contemporary masterpiece on it

I always have an eye out for vintage DLM (Design Learning Materials) sets produced in the 60s and 70s for use in schools

Some marks are incised on the bottom

The polychrome color on this one has similarly faded with age

Hand-carved Wooden Magnifying Glass boy in blue shirt while the bottom half featuresThis is not an antique, but it certainly has some age to it, and I really like the fairly rustic approach to what I typically think of as a pretty refined object. Plus the perfectly round raised ring around the glass and perfectly flat handle, which makes me think a bit of a popsicle or lollipop on a stick, and also of shaker bevelled glass hand mirrors. A fun object, great for all sorts of displays and who can ever have too many magnifiers laying