19th C. Ambrotype of Striking (and haunting) Man in Half Case pottery planter and another piece of glass

and another piece of glass laid atop it inside the gold foil

The blocks themselves here are in perfectly aged condition

The saucers measure 4 3/4" in diameter and 3/4" tall

No tears or looseness to any of the hears

and it's the sort of painting that makes me want to build a salon style wall of folk art paintings of farms and farmhouses

19th C. Ambrotype of Striking (and haunting) Man in Half Case pottery planter and another piece of glassMy first impression of this ambrotype was to think what a striking looking man, but the more closely I study it, the more he appears as if he might just be devoid of life. Perhaps this is just the effect of that very angular face, and eyes that have been touched with black paint at the centers, such that the windows into his soul are voided! A bit of a strange mouth too, tinted pink, and looking as if just closed around a canary. I find him, and the