19th C. Ambrotype of Striking (and haunting) Man in Half Case pottery planter with some surface rusting

with some surface rusting

and it's the sort of painting that makes me want to build a salon style wall of folk art paintings of farms and farmhouses

The saucers measure 4 3/4" in diameter and 3/4" tall

I'm not a surfer and really have never been tempted to try

and another piece of glass laid atop it inside the gold foil

19th C. Ambrotype of Striking (and haunting) Man in Half Case pottery planter with some surface rustingMy first impression of this ambrotype was to think what a striking looking man, but the more closely I study it, the more he appears as if he might just be devoid of life. Perhaps this is just the effect of that very angular face, and eyes that have been touched with black paint at the centers, such that the windows into his soul are voided! A bit of a strange mouth too, tinted pink, and looking as if just closed around a canary. I find him, and the