Standing, with Tall Hat and Pink Cheeks, Spare and Painterly Antique Tintype folk art painted figure Perhaps my favorite find of

Perhaps my favorite find of the week--a very old envelop with this beautiful inked X across the face of it

I'll ship it USPS flat rate priority

and a penmanship practice exercise on reverse

to which this one

and this is the one I've been waiting for

Standing, with Tall Hat and Pink Cheeks, Spare and Painterly Antique Tintype folk art painted figure Perhaps my favorite find ofI 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