Wonderful c. 1860s Mounted Albumen Photographof Girl on Rocking Horse shot glass finely made set of "bones"

finely made set of "bones"

with numbers 1-7 along the left side

all clean lines and crisp geometries

I've searched and searched and can't find another watercolor set quite like this one

so photo shows some curl to the paper

Wonderful c. 1860s Mounted Albumen Photographof Girl on Rocking Horse shot glass finely made set of "bones"A beauty of an early photograph I think, and an iconic feeling one too, to my eye all the better for the toning of the image resulting from living most of its life with an oval mat over top, which makes it feel as if spied through a scope. I've found there is quite a bit out there written about rocking horses, which, though once the purview of the wealthy, by the mid 19th century, with the increasing prosperity brought on by the Industrial Revolution,