Spare and Beautifully Concise Antique Occupational Tintype: Painter with Bucket and Brush school excercises all to the good I

all to the good I think

First photo shows them all together in accurate proportion to one another

with a little staining her and there but structurally very sound and stable and super sweet

The wheels do turn by hand but it doesn't really roll

the one at left a wooden post and silver painted metal sign with "Look Out RR Crossing For Cars" carved into it and no base (it will stand on its own on a flat surface)

Spare and Beautifully Concise Antique Occupational Tintype: Painter with Bucket and Brush school excercises all to the good II just can't get over how contemporary a super spare full body antique tintype portrait like this one feels and how completely present the subject thereby seems, as if one could oneself walk straight into the frame and touch him. Even better to find that starkness in an occupational photo, here with this painters profession distilled down to a drippy paint can and brush in hand. And with a clear line of white paint stain running straight across the