Perfectly Stark, Antique Tintype of Sensitive Looking Young Man antique portrait drawing or a deck of playing

or a deck of playing cards too--and it seems that both the top and bottom lids come off

as if to say 'don't you dare try to take my lamb

come spring

Since finding an antique brass barrel type lock with rotating disk letters

The graphics of the faces I think are just terrific

Perfectly Stark, Antique Tintype of Sensitive Looking Young Man antique portrait drawing or a deck of playingI've got a special weakness for super stark and spare antique tintype portraits that thus feel very contemporary. This one is a case in point, and reminds me, including for the combination of intensity and vulnerability that seem to reside in this you mans gaze, of the work of Dutch photographer Rineke Dijkstra, which I very much love. Feels beyond time and also hyper present to me, very beautiful. C. 1870s. 2 x 3 1 4". General wear and aging, feeling