Magical Hand-colored Sixth Plate Ruby Ambrotype of PA Folk Art Identified Portrait Painting game design Mounted to backing/scrapbook paper with

Mounted to backing/scrapbook paper with an old print on reverse

Carved into the sides of the box are three animals--a mule on front

This is among the two largest of a handful of small seaweed pressings I purchased together

There is no shortage of great teapots out there

and features lined pages for the front section with alphabetical tabs

Magical Hand-colored Sixth Plate Ruby Ambrotype of PA Folk Art Identified Portrait Painting game design Mounted to backing/scrapbook paper withCompletely wonderful and really quite magical feeling, this is a mid 19th c. hand colored ruby ambrotype of a portrait painting, the subject of which a handwritten note on the inside of the case identifies as a young Sarah Ann Sheibley, painted by her school teacher at the Sheaffer School: a Samuel Weidler Jr. A bit of searching turns up a several Sarah A. Sheibleys of Pennsylvania, and a few Weidlers who were teachers, and I believe the Sheaffer