Spare and Beautifully Concise Antique Occupational Tintype: Painter with Bucket and Brush winnowing I think these old Sapolin

I think these old Sapolin Paint "It's Wet

Box measures 7 1/2" x 4 1/4" x 1 1/8"

such that the birds painted on the opposite show through

super sturdy and sound

Rosine stole these away

Spare and Beautifully Concise Antique Occupational Tintype: Painter with Bucket and Brush winnowing I think these old SapolinI just can't get over how contemporary a super spare full body antique tintype portrait like this one feels and how completely present the subject thereby seems, as if one could oneself walk straight into the frame and touch him. Even better to find that starkness in an occupational photo, here with this painters profession distilled down to a drippy paint can and brush in hand. And with a clear line of white paint stain running straight across the