EXPOSED Glass Plate Negative Holder (Poignant Readymade) antique leather cutting die and all the better for

and all the better for them--to my eye

so can be rotated all the way around

which doesn't jump out but is visible if looking for it

Based on the scale and nail at the front of the rolling base

EXPOSED Glass Plate Negative Holder (Poignant Readymade) antique leather cutting die and all the better forI love this as a found object, complete unto itself (and which feels like it pretty much sums up everything) though one could also alter it by placing two glass plate slides inside, which would change its nature. (I had one of these previously that still had glass plates in it which made it feel very much like the encapsulation of a peep show; black shades veiling glass windows which one could then sliding open to expose them.) Here, it is just