A Botschan Reverse Painted Glass Name Plate with Gold Foil Letters coushatta basket When I spot a tramp

When I spot a tramp art tray made of matchsticks like this one (very rarely

Like the slightly smaller

was so sure of its technical complexity that he offered $50

A few of them have numbers on reverse

with the expression on the face of the mother (best seen in digital positive) just devastating

A Botschan Reverse Painted Glass Name Plate with Gold Foil Letters coushatta basket When I spot a trampI haven't been able to definitively place A. Botschan, but this is about the most beautiful name plate as I've ever seen, which makes me think either he was a sign maker, or he bothered to hire a very good one to make a sign for whatever business it was that he was in! Gold foil for the face of the letters with reverse painted glass surrounding them black for the ground and red and gold paint for the shadowing on the letters. To my eye just gorgeous