One Room School House with Students and Teachers, 19th C. Outdoor Tintype cast concrete mushroom I purchased a studio pottery

I purchased a studio pottery bowl similar in feeling to this one at the estate sale of a professor of architecture who had an incredible collection of modernist furniture

Useful for sign making still (might require drawing an X through it after printing

so moves around freely inside when the bottle is moved

" with verse singing of England's glory and fame

Something appears to have gnawed a bit at its snout at some point

One Room School House with Students and Teachers, 19th C. Outdoor Tintype cast concrete mushroom I purchased a studio potteryI believe this tintype dates to the 1870s or so, based especially on the clothing of the adults and, as far as I've been able to determine in researching, it is a fairly rare one; I've turned up a good number of school photos taken outside one room school houses produced as cabinet cards paper printed photos, but tintype examples seem very few and far between. Quite a wonderful array of faces and postures and attitudes I think, with what seems to be a