Laura, Twice Removed -- Antique Photo of Cut Paper Silhouette in Original Frame old drawings with mellowed old gold paint

with mellowed old gold paint on them and a pretty medieval look about them

he definitely has quite a good number of decades on him

but either way this makes me purely happy

While the season for fanning my be over

I'll never resist an old folk art house if I can help it

Laura, Twice Removed -- Antique Photo of Cut Paper Silhouette in Original Frame old drawings with mellowed old gold paintI believe this is an antique photo of an early cut paper silhouette, I'm guessing the original silhouette c. 1840s, and the photo late 19th c. I love photographs of portraits rendered in other (earlier) media, translating likenesses from one media genre to another and carrying them forward. With lovely scalloped edge to the lace collar, and eyelashes visible. The color is a silvery gray, which, along with the negative of the collar, makes it feel al