Spare and Beautifully Concise Antique Occupational Tintype: Painter with Bucket and Brush winnowing I think these old Sapolin

I think these old Sapolin Paint "It's Wet

squarely wrapped in what was once I imagine bright red

Rosine stole these away

/ But yet methought

The hand-painted red stripes on these two completely delights me

Spare and Beautifully Concise Antique Occupational Tintype: Painter with Bucket and Brush winnowing I think these old SapolinI just can't get over how contemporary a super spare full body antique tintype portrait like this one feels and how completely present the subject thereby seems, as if one could oneself walk straight into the frame and touch him. Even better to find that starkness in an occupational photo, here with this painters profession distilled down to a drippy paint can and brush in hand. And with a clear line of white paint stain running straight across the