Lovely Girl and Her Lovely Doll, Antique Tintype Under Glass in Blue Velvet Frame folk art horse pull toy Framed: 6 1/4" x 5

Framed: 6 1/4" x 5 3/4"

looking to me perhaps like a flurry of pale poppies

and characterizing this in my mind as a "transformation" card-- a type of playing card where the pips are incorporated into an image

And as a pretty dramatic hook

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Lovely Girl and Her Lovely Doll, Antique Tintype Under Glass in Blue Velvet Frame folk art horse pull toy Framed: 6 1/4" x 5I've always got an eye out for old photos of girls and their dolls in part because I love seeing the far ranging dolls themselves, and the ways they are held or otherwise situated, but even more so because I think the intensity of bonds between children and objects, and between girls (primarily, and certainly in large part because acceptably) and their dolls, is a rich and complex and interesting subject, and also poignant for those of us who as