Charming Old Homemade Wooden Kaleidoscope folk art boy I believe this was likely

I believe this was likely meant to represent a train station

This hand-thown vessel is stamped on bottom and measures 5

including for how the entire right side of it opens like a door to reveal a pretty fabulously lithographed interior

and gold trim around the edges matching the gold trim on the  embroidery

and feels to me as if it ought to inspire a novel or a play or at least a poem about childhood and fantasy and confronting the existential void

Charming Old Homemade Wooden Kaleidoscope folk art boy I believe this was likelySince finding a sweet old homemade kaleidoscope this summer, I've kept a keen eye out I find kaleidoscopes magical things, and there is something especially special, and very tender too, about someone having created that magic for themselves! Homemade ones like this have no turning parts; you just turn the whole thing to move the little bits of colored glass around inside, landing in different patterns. Not the most spectacular kaleidoscopic effects