Carved, Painted Antique Mechanical Bird 1880 map Alphonse XIII (King of Spain)

Alphonse XIII (King of Spain)

This white porcelain glove mold

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

though the photos make it look a little bluer than it is

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 Alphonse XIII (King of Spain)I 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