Blushes Turned Dark Blemishes - Hand-colored Antique Ambrotype of Mother and Child american folk art architecture They are hand numbered in

They are hand numbered in pencil at top center (this one is 4

one-of-a-kind box and board with great character and  many years of play left in it

both in and of itself as a stunning photograph

forever in wait of soles

Blushes Turned Dark Blemishes - Hand-colored Antique Ambrotype of Mother and Child american folk art architecture They are hand numbered inI've always looking for antique photos and anything really made better by the chance effects of time, and this is very much one of those. I believe originally the cheeks of this mother and child were given a pink hand tinted blush, but over time that blush turned to near black, now looking like dramatic blemishes or diseases of the skin, which seem as if threatening to overtake their faces entirely. The result makes me think of Hawthorne's The