Carved, Painted Antique Mechanical Bird 1880 map Oilcloth (also known as American

Oilcloth (also known as American cloth) was traditionally made through a fairly labor-intensive process of treating close-woven cotton or linen cloth (I believe this is linen) with a coating of boiled linseed oil to make it waterproof

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It has definitely seen some use--the wood is well worn and it is missing a few bristles at the head and along one side

Alphonse XIII (King of Spain)

with a solid panel on his back and bias tape seams around his flappy ears and for his tail

Carved, Painted Antique Mechanical Bird 1880 map Oilcloth (also known as AmericanI had two of these previously, which quickly sold, and was happy to find another, as I think these are amazing. I think this was most likely part of a singing bird cage or cuckoo clock or something similar, where some sort of mechanics would periodically trigger the wings to raise and beaks to open perhaps simultaneously producing a chirp chirp! One could just stick it in a little vase or small planter, to hover over a succulent, say. It's a fairly