SOLD Make Do: Ninth Plate Tintype Portrait of Striking Young Woman in Calico Dress with Tight and Tender Old String Wrap pottery trivet and a wonderful addition to

and a wonderful addition to a West German Pottery collection

The paint on this unusual little shoe shaped box has nice age to it

The name of the species--in this case it looks to be "Lycoperdong erunatum" is incised on the bottom of the piece

Photograph 5 5/8" x 3 11/16"

but to my eye a wonderful and evocative one--and the inked lettering spelling out Shut Open Open just makes me swoon

SOLD Make Do: Ninth Plate Tintype Portrait of Striking Young Woman in Calico Dress with Tight and Tender Old String Wrap pottery trivet and a wonderful addition toI'm very tempted to keep this one for myself because I really love the sense of presence and appearance of this woman (face to hair to collar to dress to belt), and also, especially, because I love the old string wrap holding the layers of mat and glass and photo together having lost the foil wrap "preserver" that would once have done so, and the case it was surely once housed in too. The string repair is old, with corrosion corresponding to its