Sweet, Much Loved Victorian Child's Bell Rattle with Turned Wooden Handle hand-written text The exterior is in good

The exterior is in good shape

and an extra piece of wood reinforcing it from below

I think in a good way

S so  perhaps that is when this Photomatic was taken

Sweet, Much Loved Victorian Child's Bell Rattle with Turned Wooden Handle hand-written text The exterior is in goodI have a weakness for antique rattles, and bells of all sorts too, and certainly believe an antique child's rattle with lovely turned wooden handle is superior to a new plastic one! And just a festive feeling thing to wave around including for summoning people to the dinner table. Sweet. 5 3 4" long and producing a cheery jingle jangle, like sleighbells. Wear to the striped, sewn strips of heavy duty oil cloth to which the bells are sewn, and some