Stern Man with Bible Against Absurd Backdrop, Antique Tintype Portrait blue birds watercolor It feels perfect for a

It feels perfect for a few branches of winter berries and greens as well as for spring daffodils or peonies

I think because this woman looks very early 80s to me

really--this airborne donkey looks

The bottom is simply green felt

It appears there was once something/s poking out of the holes at either side of the globe — the openings seem a bit small to hold the heads angels

Stern Man with Bible Against Absurd Backdrop, Antique Tintype Portrait blue birds watercolor It feels perfect for aWhen I look at photographs it is pretty much all about content, and I do like to imagine what was going on at the moment a photo was taken. This tintype is beautifully crisp and clear, but what I love about it is the absurd juxtaposition between this very sober looking man holding up his bible and the almost Rococo studio backdrop with painted roses (one imagines they were pink) arching over him from one side and emerging again just behind his right