SOLD Make Do: Ninth Plate Tintype Portrait of Striking Young Woman in Calico Dress with Tight and Tender Old String Wrap counting so it is more reverse

so it is more reverse glass than tinsel

I love a chip-carved tramp art box with lots of stacked layers

and indeed I'd love to build a whole dressing room around it

I forgot to shoot individually

overflowing with a bounty of what appears to be fruit

SOLD Make Do: Ninth Plate Tintype Portrait of Striking Young Woman in Calico Dress with Tight and Tender Old String Wrap counting so it is more reverseI'm very tempted to keep this one for myself because I really love the sense of presence and appearance of this woman (face to hair to collar to dress to belt), and also, especially, because I love the old string wrap holding the layers of mat and glass and photo together having lost the foil wrap "preserver" that would once have done so, and the case it was surely once housed in too. The string repair is old, with corrosion corresponding to its