Burning Oil Tank, Parker PA, Early 20th Century Real Photo Postcard pip some partial

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There is a little wear to the metallic glaze and a few white scuffs on the black

with their cork stoppers and apothecary-like labels just feels really satisfying

and a "disc number" 1G91-2 carved into the base--which would date him between approximately 1940-1970

I really love the scalloped edges of the wrapped bark (a bit like the chip-carved edges of wood on a tramp art frame or box)

Burning Oil Tank, Parker PA, Early 20th Century Real Photo Postcard pip some partialHoly moly, I could look at this image forever. Beyond simply standing as a cool, very early 20th century first hand document of a burning oil tank in Parker, PA (located in Armstrong County, in the Allegheny River Valley), I find the combination of lush, spectacular smoke cloud against spare landscape and minimalist oil tank formally PERFECT. And then also a terrific tension between the intense smoke and the two bushes or trees on the horizon to its