Beautiful Old Linen Covered Tamborine with Beveled Glass Mirror mantra 3 1/2" across at base

3 1/2" across at base

no chips or splits or cracks but plenty of irregularities original to its making

ever reached her

perhaps for a very musical sweetheart--and it would make a very sweet token of love now to the same

Beautiful Old Linen Covered Tamborine with Beveled Glass Mirror mantra 3 1/2" across at baseI've got a special weakness for old tambourines, finding them quite beautiful objects formally, and also for knowing they've lived long lives of being held and shaken really among the most immediate of instruments. I would guess this beautiful linen covered one lived a good life before becoming the frame for a bevelled mirror but the mirror itself has clearly been there for a good long time, too. I imagine the transformation occurred after the drum