Young Woman in Green and Black, c. 1950s Photo Statuette painted tin bank With train on top

With train on top

and quite solid and hefty

unusual for being crafted of leather rather than wood

and the nails were individually inlaid—with the added benefit being that one can feel the numbers with the tips of the fingers

Young Woman in Green and Black, c. 1950s Photo Statuette painted tin bank With train on topFrom the same Rockport, MA collection as the painted tintype I just listed (and the other photos I've listed today too), a smiling photo statuette of a pretty young woman, c. 1950s I believe. I find the effect of transforming a photograph into a statuette such a curious thing like a doll, to be moved around, ready to be dropped into different scenarios which in this case seems precisely right, as one imagines this young woman's future had yet to be