Handsome Civil War Military Flute Player in Uniform, Scarce and Striking Antique Tintype 1980s vase Box measures 7 3/4" x

Box measures 7 3/4" x 4 1/2" x 1 1/4"

where I could regularly pick it up to admire it

like a workbook to be taken out into the forest--and indeed

including a note of reprimand: "cahier malpropre

done by manipulating a sooty candle over the surface of a newly painted object

Handsome Civil War Military Flute Player in Uniform, Scarce and Striking Antique Tintype 1980s vase Box measures 7 3/4" xI paid quite a bit for this one, but I just fell in love with him. And it struck me as a good one for the moment (thinking about protesters in Portland wearing costumes and making music in the face of the National Guard et al), and for me the flute seems like the peacemaker of instruments, leading the troops, as it were, to some resolution.) Our flutist here is Civil War era, wearing a military uniform, including fabulous plumed hat a few other