Handsome Civil War Military Flute Player in Uniform, Scarce and Striking Antique Tintype 1980s vase with the reverse painted glass

with the reverse painted glass and gold foil glowing like flames

like a workbook to be taken out into the forest--and indeed

a flapper-esque bathing beauty emerging from the sea and through the fog

It's June as I post this--the time of the year when I want cut flowers in every room--and this pitcher is 100% perfect for a big bunch of peonies

This bookplate came from the 1903 Bureau of American Ethnology at the Smithsonian Institution Annual Report (published in book format) featuring original drawings of Hopi Kachina “drawn by native artists

Handsome Civil War Military Flute Player in Uniform, Scarce and Striking Antique Tintype 1980s vase with the reverse painted glassI paid quite a bit for this one, but I just fell in love with him. And it struck me as a good one for the moment (thinking about protesters in Portland wearing costumes and making music in the face of the National Guard et al), and for me the flute seems like the peacemaker of instruments, leading the troops, as it were, to some resolution.) Our flutist here is Civil War era, wearing a military uniform, including fabulous plumed hat a few other