Strange Baby: Hand-painted Antique Full Plate Tintype British steam liner The slide top on the

The slide top on the box slides open smoothly and stays firmly closed

whether the hand of an old display mannequin or a life sized santos I am not sure

which has an almost electric feeling about it

including brick red for the chimneys and again for the tops of the windows

turned wooden columns

Strange Baby: Hand-painted Antique Full Plate Tintype British steam liner The slide top on theI've been paying more attention to hand painted folk art tintypes of late, and this one is exactly why wonderfully strange! I do think the face on this baby looked a little like the face of an old man to begin with, but the painted blue eyes very much contribute to it, and the pinking of those downturned lips, too. And then these wonderful graphite drawn hands, like little paws resting on a big belly! With charming white painted lace collar and cuffs,