Kingsland Family Homestead, Super Atmospheric Antique Mounted Albumen Photo vintage Japanese hand puppet ) With a certain mystery

) With a certain mystery about them

and the ones I am drawn to are old hand-carved solid wood working decoys with great lines and minimal decoration

and also rightly signifying that this kit came to the rescue more than a few times

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Kingsland Family Homestead, Super Atmospheric Antique Mounted Albumen Photo vintage Japanese hand puppet ) With a certain mysteryI found this one at Brimfield, in a pile along with two wonderful hand painted tintypes I sold last week. An albumen photo I believe, with a clarity and quality of detail that is just fantastic and makes these women, their house and trees and chickens! feel almost surreally vivid and alive. I've always got an eye out for things that feel like inspiration for a novel yet to be written, and this photograph feels like that to me. On reverse, an