Shaw + Nodder 1792 Ambystoma Mexicanum (Mole Salamander) Hand-Colored Copper Engraving Emile Bluteau sculpture Just a marvelous tabletop or

Just a marvelous tabletop or windowsill object

Bilston and Battersea enamel trinket boxes

I'll never walk away from a very specific homemade token of love if I can help it

The sleeve appears to be adhered to the tintype and I quite like the effect of it as a frame

Shaw + Nodder 1792 Ambystoma Mexicanum (Mole Salamander) Hand-Colored Copper Engraving Emile Bluteau sculpture Just a marvelous tabletop orThis is a striking and wonderfully surreal looking hand colored Shaw and Nodder copper engraving of a Mole Salamader, or Ambystoma Mexicanum, dated 1792. Recently, I found a couple of Shaw and Nodder engravings that had been enhanced with additional watercoloring and annotation by a holder of them in the first half of the 19th century; that is not the case here, but those heightened my awareness of them, and then I found this one in Vermont this week.