Brilliantly Colored Bird and Berries, Unusual Early Tinsel Painting in Original Frame boxes inside box and the reverse side is

and the reverse side is finished with fabric-- but I'm not completely sure

and really a bit wild

I found this great old chip carved tramp art frame with a drawing dated 1840s inside of it (which I'm listing separately)

a minor dark smudge to the paper to the right of that

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Brilliantly Colored Bird and Berries, Unusual Early Tinsel Painting in Original Frame boxes inside box and the reverse side isFinding this one made me realize how rare it is to come across an early folk art tinsel painting of a bird I've since found a few examples out there, notably in the collection of the American Folk Art Museum, but certainly there are hundreds of urns of flowers and fruit for every bird on branch! And what a bird, neck and breast and tail feathers a colorful, scalloped patchwork of shimmery foils showing through the reverse painted glass. And those red