Woman and Children on Rowboat Holding Waterlilies, Poetic Antique Snapshot Photo silver-plate shot glass The happy surprise of my

The happy surprise of my week was to find this terrier beaming up at me from an unpicked box of tintypes

Man in pink measures 2 5/8" tall x 7/8" wide at base and 13/16" deep

it seems to me it might have been tin quilting templates that sat on this cutting board for a very long time

to proudly house the tintype photographs of this particular family of four

Woman and Children on Rowboat Holding Waterlilies, Poetic Antique Snapshot Photo silver-plate shot glass The happy surprise of myOut harvesting waterlilies, or a memorial on the lake? I might guess the former, and assume the person taking the picture was standing on shore, but there is a certain feeling of gravitas to the photo that makes it feel as if a document of a consequential moment. Whatever the case, something quite beautiful about her standing and facing away, face shadowed by her hat, and one of the children's too. And how lovely, and also fairly rare to see, those