Lovely Girl and Her Lovely Doll, Antique Tintype Under Glass in Blue Velvet Frame folk art horse pull toy and characterizing this in my

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

Nicely crafted from end to end

looking to me perhaps like a flurry of pale poppies

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

Lovely Girl and Her Lovely Doll, Antique Tintype Under Glass in Blue Velvet Frame folk art horse pull toy and characterizing this in myI'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