Antique Primitive Bevelled Glass Mirror in Original Dark Red Paint standing tintype frame I found a box of

I found a box of these old bone gambling chips and have become obsessed with them in the same way I'm obsessed with old clay marbles: I think they're just gorgeous as objects

woven I believe with a wool weft on a cotton warp

most of which employed craftsmen arriving from Europe

Royer and dated 1893

having googled cottages in Derbyshire

Antique Primitive Bevelled Glass Mirror in Original Dark Red Paint standing tintype frame I found a box ofPhotos don't really capture the full character or color on this old handmade frame with its original square bevelled glass mirror, but I think it's really a beauty. The paint stain is a dark, sort of oxblood red and the mirror perfectly distressed from age but still reflective. Nothing on it ever touched I don't believe, with crusty accumulation in the corners. Found in New Hampshire and of New England I'm sure. Just shy of 8 x 8 x 3 8. Perfectly aged