Encased Forever (with Love), Mid 19th Century Ambrotype of Pink Cheeked Man in Marvelous Leatherwork Frame celebrity drawing some age toning/foxing to end

some age toning/foxing to end papers

with a reactive glass that shows a mix of greens and browns

This one would have been made for the tourist trade

Crosses ranged in size from recycled telephone poles to pencil-thin constructions he gathered into dense

Encased Forever (with Love), Mid 19th Century Ambrotype of Pink Cheeked Man in Marvelous Leatherwork Frame celebrity drawing some age toning/foxing to end(Photos do no justice, this is all about presence, and all those layered bits of leather are much more beautiful in hand.) Anyway I had to live with this special one for a while; I had a deep, very visceral response to it when first I saw it, and still do as much a thing to feel as to look at it. (And smell that leather, too!) Our pink cheeked fellow is forever enclosed here (I want to say encrusted, too), with leather bits overlapping the cased