Excellent Old Bell System Telephone Lineman's Brass Pocket Mirror (for Splicing and Inspecting Wire) toy bear giving a terrific softness to

giving a terrific softness to the blue

expecting its concealed price tag to proclaim its unattainability

and certainly they provide a history lesson relative to the appearance of world flags at the end of the 19th century and colonies held at that time

I'd hang him near the door to greet and/or ward off visitors

and I believe it is quite old

Excellent Old Bell System Telephone Lineman's Brass Pocket Mirror (for Splicing and Inspecting Wire) toy bear giving a terrific softness toI 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