Carved, Painted Antique Mechanical Bird 1880 map 9 3/8" tall x 2

9 3/8" tall x 2 1/4" wide x 1/4" thick

with a bit of discoloration to the bottom black layer only in the area covered by the silver top layer

7 3/8" tall x 4 1/4" widest diameter

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

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

Carved, Painted Antique Mechanical Bird 1880 map 9 3/8" tall x 2I 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