As Found, Eerie Antique Tintype Portrait of Girl Seated at Table black with white dots 1940s hand-painted wooden cutout used

1940s hand-painted wooden cutout used to be a door stop

strung for hanging

and can just picture the scene

which it took me a long time to notice so I don't think significantly detracts

and best of all fabulous zig zag of red paint giving jaws to his big open mouth

As Found, Eerie Antique Tintype Portrait of Girl Seated at Table black with white dots 1940s hand-painted wooden cutout usedI've always got an eye out for old photographs made more interesting and evocative via the effects of time and think this tintype is definitely one of those. It makes me think a bit of little miss muffet sitting on her tuffet and then the spider coming along to cast her in its web, and also of a reflection captured in a shattered mirror. One of the things I like about this sort of photographic deterioration is that feels as if having emerged from