SOLD Farm House with Encroaching Tree, Antique Mounted Photo Wayne B. Blouch with wear and paint loss

with wear and paint loss as evident

Quite a lesson in Victorian morals and manners

2" d x 7/8" t

mid-1960s metal bookends

I believe the lid of this late 19th c

SOLD Farm House with Encroaching Tree, Antique Mounted Photo Wayne B. Blouch with wear and paint lossI love an old photo of a house that feels very much like a specific portrait, all the better when that photograph has itself accrued a patina that seems to further enhance the innate character of the place. And, in this case, I especially love the young tree growing just beside what I take for the front door, as if forever trapping the inhabitants inside or keeping others out! a sort of gate inside the gate. And with a nice stretch of white painted