Birth Place, Unusual Antique Cabinet Card Photo of Punch Paper House Portrait Needlepoint antique slide whistle ) In any event

) In any event

likely along with the rest of the holy family--but happily still stands atop her original pedestal—two red painted wood squares and a blue painted carved globe with snake curled around it

I don't usually go for signs featuring words to live by

and simply "foreign" stamped on the lid underside

Dominoes measure 1 5/8" x 3/4" x 1/4"

Birth Place, Unusual Antique Cabinet Card Photo of Punch Paper House Portrait Needlepoint antique slide whistle ) In any eventYou know I love a photograph of an earlier photo, and a photograph of an earlier painted portrait too: technological innovations, such as the invention of the tintype, enabled the production of inexpensive copies, and hence an easier carrying forward of the past into the future. (Such richness in moments of transition and translation from one medium to another I always think.) This though is I believe is the first cabinet card I've seen capturing a