SOLD Make Do: Ninth Plate Tintype Portrait of Striking Young Woman in Calico Dress with Tight and Tender Old String Wrap counting I love a chip-carved tramp

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'll give that teacher great credit for leading their students in the exercise of relief carving silhouettes and painting/staining them black and white--in direct conversation with the hollow cut silhouette of a hundred years prior

all highly covetable

so it is more reverse glass than tinsel

SOLD Make Do: Ninth Plate Tintype Portrait of Striking Young Woman in Calico Dress with Tight and Tender Old String Wrap counting I love a chip-carved trampI'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