19th C. Blue-Gray Painted Pine Chest with Square Iron Nails, As Found wooden cutout snoopy ruby ambrotype which

ruby ambrotype which

13" x 9 1/2" x 3/4"

housing this wonderful photo of a very young and very anxious looking young sailor

11/16" x 3 13/16" and in very good condition

for which he wore a dark wig and spoke in a French accent

19th C. Blue-Gray Painted Pine Chest with Square Iron Nails, As Found wooden cutout snoopy ruby ambrotype whichThis one is old. And with a really sweet and special feeling about it, too. I imagine there were once two small, short drawers that fit into the niches at top long gone, but one doesn't really miss them. I'm not sure the story with the paint across the front of the two existing drawers, but it is definitely old too I think of the same period as the gray, which is original to it; perhaps the maker was considering a more decorative treatment but decided