Civil War Toy Spy Glass

Independent shop in Phinney Ridge

Available from Zoo Store when we last checked, in the last two days. Sold from the shop’s own store; the price there is the one that counts.

During the Civil War, everybody was spying on everybody else, and little was done on either side to stop the enemy's espionage. Shoe clerks, lawyers, grande dames, actresses, even housewives-all joined in the espionage game, and many survived to tell about it. This generation that revered the romantic novelists and poets made up the rules as they went along and adhered to a "gentleman's code" of conduct. The capitals of the North and South, Washington and Richmond, lay only 100 miles apart and w