Standing, with Tall Hat and Pink Cheeks, Spare and Painterly Antique Tintype mending I really love how the

I really love how the black fifteen is actually inlaid as opposed to just colored

and which makes a handy backing for either framing it or simply hanging it directly on the wall

and so is Tom Thumb

through absence

I'm not quite sure

Standing, with Tall Hat and Pink Cheeks, Spare and Painterly Antique Tintype mending I really love how theI often use the word painterly to describe tintypes that have a poetic sort of spareness and tonal richness to them I'm not totally sure how to articulate it, but it's a particular sort of beauty, and distinguishes them from the bulk of tintype portraits one finds. Anyway, whatever it is, this for me embodies it. The crisp rake of that cloth draped table edge, coming in from the right, and how it echoes the cross of his leg, and the way that old