Looking-Egg?

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Hi friends,
I would like to know the exact meaning of this "looking-egg" I have read on the Steinbeck's "Travels with Charley":
'Long ago at Easter I had a LOOKING-EGG. Peering in a little porthole at the end, I saw a lovely little farm, a kind of dream farm, (...) I regarded this as a fairy-tale farm gnomes sitting under toadstools.'
It seems that refers to a dream or a vision "I had", isn't?
Thanks in advance, Jo.
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In the last century, one form of Easter egg was a real egg (hen, duck, goose, whatever) from which the contents were removed. Then a small image or scene was inserted. You looked through the pinprick hole at one end and saw the scene. Alison Uttley describes one in an essay about growing up in Derbyshire before the First World War.
Feebs11In the last century, one form of Easter egg was a real egg (hen, duck, goose, whatever) from which the contents were removed. Then a small image or scene was inserted. You looked through the pinprick hole at one end and saw the scene. Alison Uttley describes one in an essay about growing up in Derbyshire before the First World War.
Probably in partial imitation of the design of the contemporary photo camerasEmotion: smile
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Amazingly enough, I was using the internet to ask the same question about the same sentence! Glad to have received a quick answer!
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Hi friends I have seen in dream I am looking eggs and breaking one egg .

tile airHi friends I have seen in dream I am looking eggs and breaking one egg .

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I have dreamed that I am looking at some eggs and I broke one of them.

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