SOLD Beautiful 19th C. Primitive Red, Green, Black Painted Checkerboard extruded clay and I must say I

and I must say I find it a great pleasure to unfurl them and then lock the handles in place

Someone not long ago either reframed it or replaced an old backing on the frame with a new piece of foam core

the more naive the better

) I believe it is a carte-de-visite albumen photo

SOLD Beautiful 19th C. Primitive Red, Green, Black Painted Checkerboard extruded clay and I must say II spotted this board from a distance hanging on the wall at a shop I frequent regularly in inland Maine the other day and made a beeline for it such a beautiful combination of colors in very old paint; to my eye formal perfection. It does not appear that it was originally symmetrical i. e. I don't think there was ever a second "well" at "top", but it did lose the fourth side of the perimeter framing at the edge of the well that exists. My eye doesn't