Folk Art Carved Frame with Cabinet Card of Handsome Man with Umbrella and Stalagmite! miniature workbench with an especially nice top

with an especially nice top view punctuated by brass tacks (they look to me like upholstery tacks) at center and corners

which verges into the realm of total abstraction

Plenty of scrapes and scratches and a little rusting

The details of the uniform are consistent with Union naval uniforms during the Civil War

00 the next morning having stayed at the wedding all night

Folk Art Carved Frame with Cabinet Card of Handsome Man with Umbrella and Stalagmite! miniature workbench with an especially nice topSold just as found, an old folk art standing frame with antique cabinet card of handsome young man in suit and vest and boutonniere, umbrella in hand and resting the other on what looks like a stalagmite but must be carved wood. I really like how the umbrella and whatever that is at his right form a triangle with his head at top, all pointing up toward the peak of the frame and altogether evincing a sort of vernacular holy trinity. With pinprick type