Young Man on Red Stool with Painterly Rug, Antique Folk Art Painted Tintype ramp walker The pattern

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when one found many popular images of both men and women playing chess

From what I've read Thomson himself

and then the larger pocket below could hold a a stash of match boxes or match books

but I think it's really quite a charming thing

Young Man on Red Stool with Painterly Rug, Antique Folk Art Painted Tintype ramp walker The patternI'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