Young Man on Red Stool with Painterly Rug, Antique Folk Art Painted Tintype girl drawing Stands sturdy and all drawers

Stands sturdy and all drawers open and close

Such a happy thing to set at the center of the table

and quite an early one I believe

I purchased this pie wheel at the estate sale of a couple in their 90s who had a fantastic collection of primitives

I have not opened it from the back

Young Man on Red Stool with Painterly Rug, Antique Folk Art Painted Tintype girl drawing Stands sturdy and all drawersI've become very enamored with antique folk art painted tintypes, and this example embodies exactly why wonderfully strange, rather surreal, and feeling quite out of time and place. Especially great helmet like hair on this serious young man in black suit, who seems 3 dimensional against the flat gray painted ground (making me think of a fotocultura), but best of all the electric feeling red and black detailing on his chair, and the painterly red and