Beautiful 19th C. Smoke Decorated Lidded Storage Tin with Handles cultivator and it appears that there

and it appears that there were probably once more wooden crosses in the windows--now just appearing in the front right window

and it appears that Mickey paired with the yellow tractor is pretty rare

I really really really love pinprick decorated watercolors

or one could

I find it a wonderful mix of warm and tender and humble and proud--and of course I read all sorts of things into that face (looks a bit as if she's holding a secret to me

Beautiful 19th C. Smoke Decorated Lidded Storage Tin with Handles cultivator and it appears that thereA friend and fellow antiques dealer was expressing to me just the other day his enamourment with smoke decorated objects; I must admit I'd never paid super close attention, but then came across this tin and I must say I'm smitten. Smoke decorating, or smoke painting, became popular in the late 18th century and was used well into the 19th, done by manipulating a sooty candle over the surface of a newly painted object, still wet, to produce various