Lovely Young Woman Holding Book, Hand-tinted Ambrotype by J.T Williams, York PA, 1850s antique splint basket with extraordinary surfaces decoration suggesting

with extraordinary surfaces decoration suggesting infinite branching

of Greenfield Ohio (founded in 1887) first produced coffee grinders and then everything from mousetraps to cash registers

typical of these toys

which makes me think of the roaring twenties about to run into the impossibility of the Great Depression

or peonies

Lovely Young Woman Holding Book, Hand-tinted Ambrotype by J.T Williams, York PA, 1850s antique splint basket with extraordinary surfaces decoration suggestingA strong, crisp 1850s ambrotype by J. Thomas Williams (as printed on the red velvet of the case), who moved to York, PA from Baltimore and established a leading studio there in the early 1850s until moving again in 1857. I just love her, looking earnest and honest and hopeful, with hand tinted pink cheeks and holding a book or case in her hand, it appears with flowers painted across the front. Sixth plate; 3 5 8" x 3 1 8" cased. Both sides of case