Strange Inner Glow: Evocatively Degraded Ninth Plate Ruby Ambrotype of Baby little mouse bringing her back a sack

bringing her back a sack full

with a couple of splits from shrinkage/expansion on the back side

In 1905 he started the Forest Craft Guild

His pads and shin guards and glove are all pretty great too

though it would also be great just sitting

Strange Inner Glow: Evocatively Degraded Ninth Plate Ruby Ambrotype of Baby little mouse bringing her back a sackSuch a strange one! This is an foil wrapped, uncased 19th c. ruby ambrotype which, over time, has been transformed in what I find a quite evocative and rather otherworldly way, as if revealing this child's inner light (or its being consumed from within by a pear shaped ectoplasmic blob!) I especially love how the hand at left seems to grip and press into the side of the glowing form. There is no backing aside from a taped perimeter and the foil wrap,