Burning Oil Tank, Parker PA, Early 20th Century Real Photo Postcard handmade wooden sign I bought this piece

I bought this piece

There are no chips or cracks

What fun to have this vintage Towle pewter shell game set around--perhaps to pull out at cocktail parties

Between 1790 and 1830 Betruch printed the "Bilderbuch für Kinder"

with its dense pattern of cuts and wounds

Burning Oil Tank, Parker PA, Early 20th Century Real Photo Postcard handmade wooden sign I bought this pieceHoly moly, I could look at this image forever. Beyond simply standing as a cool, very early 20th century first hand document of a burning oil tank in Parker, PA (located in Armstrong County, in the Allegheny River Valley), I find the combination of lush, spectacular smoke cloud against spare landscape and minimalist oil tank formally PERFECT. And then also a terrific tension between the intense smoke and the two bushes or trees on the horizon to its